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by kllrnohj 2050 days ago
> TSMC would rather produce tiny Apple chips and AMD Zen chiplets to for yield and wafer space efficiency.

TSMC sells wafers, not functioning dies. They don't care how you slice it up or how bad you yield as a result.

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I was going to mention this. The point is that Apple and AMD buy more wafers.

It’s rumoured that Nvidia’s deal with Samsung was for working dies, not total wafers.