[kjkjadksj]

Its tsmcs chip not apples though, anyone can up and order something of those sort of specs from them and meta has plenty of money to wave around at a crowded bar for attention.

[doctoboggan]

TSMC is a fab, not a chip designer. Apple designed their own chips with in-house engineering talent. Due to how the silicon supply chain works no-one but TSMC can make those chips so everyone needs to use them. Also Meta can't just waive around money and get the most advanced chips; apple has bought out all the production for some time.

[kjkjadksj]

Amd waived around enough money to get a big order of 3nm too and they aren’t even big scary nvidia but the underdogs in this space.

[threeseed]

> anyone can up and order something

Can you send me the link for this and do you know if I can also order my own custom 4090 GPU as well.

I am thinking I might beat Nvidia and Apple at their game.

[kjkjadksj]

Provided you have a millions to waive around at tsmc this is certainly possible for you. They don’t work for Apple they work for money.

[hbn]

You really think if it was that easy to compete with Apple's SoCs, Google wouldn't have done it long ago for the Pixels? Or someone in the Android space would step in to compete with Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips? Samsung hasn't been able to do it for years with their Exynos line.

[kjkjadksj]

Looking at tsmc’s zen 5 they just sold to Amd I think its certainly possible.