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by mschuster91 1546 days ago
> Notice how there is no shortage of chips for iPhones, because Apple just buys the capacity at whatever cost it takes.

Apple bought out the entire capacity of TSMC's 3nm node [1]. I would not be surprised if the deal actually was for Apple to fund the construction of the fab in exchange for this level of priority.

[1] https://www.heise.de/news/Bericht-Apple-schnappt-sich-komple...