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Bloomberg: Apple chipmaker TSMC's Arizona plant is mostly for showapple tsmc bloomberg tokenistic3 years ago
Published November 17, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Bloomberg: Apple chipmaker TSMC's Arizona plant is mostly for show

"Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm and AMD will be eager to announce their made-in-the-US chips, but the actual supply will be meager and tokenistic."

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Tim Cook: By 2024, (some) Apple silicon will be manufactured in Arizonaapple tsmc arizona 20243 years ago
Published November 16, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Tim Cook: By 2024, (some) Apple silicon will be manufactured in Arizona

From Mark Gurman's "Apple Prepares to Get Made-in-US Chips in Pivot From Asia" posted Tuesday on the Bloomberg.

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Buffett puts $4B into Apple's chip foundry. TSMC pops.warren buffett selling apple3 years ago
Published November 15, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Buffett puts $4B into Apple's chip foundry. TSMC pops.

We should have seen this coming. 

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Apple's Taiwanese chip maker building second U.S. plantapple tsmc iphone 163 years ago
Published November 9, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple's Taiwanese chip maker building second U.S. plant

From Asa Fitch and Yang Jie's  "Chip-Making Juggernaut TSMC Eyes Multibillion-Dollar Arizona Factory Expansion" in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.

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Apple credited with fueling its chipmaker's 48% revenue thrust in Septemberapple tsmc record revenue3 years ago
Published October 10, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple credited with fueling its chipmaker's 48% revenue thrust in September

TSMC has a lot of clients, but Apple brings in the lion's share of its revenue.

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Report: Apple caved. Accepted TSMC's terms.apple tsmc caved3 years ago
Published October 4, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Report: Apple caved. Accepted TSMC's terms.

The world's most valuable semiconductor manufacturer wouldn't budge.

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What Apple gets out of the Chips Act that Biden just signed into lawapple chips act barrons3 years ago
Published August 13, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

What Apple gets out of the Chips Act that Biden just signed into law

From Glenn O'Donnell's "The Chips Act Puts the Semiconductor Industry Back on the Right Path" posted Saturday by Barron's: Beneficiaries of the Chips Act are obviously…

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Apple lobbying pays off in Senate with TSMC chip-making voteapple tsmc arizona senate3 years ago
Published July 21, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple lobbying pays off in Senate with TSMC chip-making vote

Ben Lovejoy's "US chip subsidy bill ‘vital to TSMC Arizona plant’ passes new Senate vote" posted Wednesday on 9to5Mac.

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Apple to roll its own modem by 2023 -- reportapple modem 3nm 20233 years ago
Published November 24, 2021 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple to roll its own modem by 2023 -- report

From Sam Byford's "Apple reportedly switching to its own iPhone modem design in 2023" posted Wednesday on The Verge.

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Links in Apple's China supply chain suspended, not TSMCapple supply chain hiccup4 years ago
Published September 27, 2021 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Links in Apple's China supply chain suspended, not TSMC

From Reuters' "Some Apple, Tesla suppliers halt production in China amid power pinch" posted Monday.

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.]

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