• cheesepotatoes@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    There’s a reason TSMC does most of the world’s chip fabrication.

    It’s complex and extremely expensive. Standing up a fab, in America no less, capable of handling Apple’s demand would be an astronomically expensive feat. Apple would never do this while TSMC is still an option. Even after the tariffs it would still probably be cheaper to use TSMC.

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      14 hours ago

      TSMC is for bleeding edge chip. 10nm and above are produced everywhere. Mostly 28nm, since it is the cheapest. It won’t be easy to build 5nm fabs but I bet still doable.

    • Fillicia@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      Also let’s be honest, unless the tariff is applied to everyone it’s gonna be cheaper to use another country as a middleman to trade with with China.