[jjoonathan]

Apple pays a premium for the privilege of using their face to test the new node for brick walls.

Sure, sometimes it means they get the newest bestest chips a year early and the fans can party, but if you're an anti-fan just remain patient and I suspect one of these years you will be the one with reason to party.

[lvl102]

Which is my point exactly. They’re using market power to basically stymie competition. This is textbook anticompetitive behavior.

[Someone]

Is it? I think it’s using money, not market power.

Using market power would be threatening TSMC to shop elsewhere if they sell the same tech to others. I’ve not heard claims they do.

I also think TSMC is the one having market power there, but given that Apple pay’s a lot for them to build the tech, that may not be as large as one would think.

[bzzzt]

Investing into something better than your competitors make is competing, not anticompetitive.

[eliseomartelli]

I don't think this is the case. There are other semiconductor manufacturers, for example Samsung.