[bsder]

> Can you imagine if Apple behaved this way? If iPhone sales drop one quarter, cancelling all their chip production until sales picked up again?

Actually, Apple HAS done this. And it can kill a company.

For example: Peregrine Semiconductor who got bought by Murata in the aftermath.

[my123]

For Peregrine, it’s different. They had even replaced with another supplier.

(From https://www.benzinga.com/tech/14/08/4808511/peregrine-ceo-ji...)