BlueLightning

Maybe earlier speculation on refusal of price hike was wrong (like lots of other Apple-related "news").  

TSMC (TSM) likely provided data that price hike was justified.  Switching to Samsung would have set back development.  
Out five years, others are planning 2nm and 1.4nm processes.  

Gas is about $3.25-3.65 in Ohio, up due to a refinery fire last month.  
High gas prices are hastening the switch over to electric.  
Ohio has also developed a lot of renewable energy, one of the reasons Intel is planning 7 chip fabs in Ohio.  
I'm running on Ohio river area hydroelectric at a rate 75% that of natural gas (and far less than coal).  

avon b7 said:

With a little luck legislation will pass that will force companies to support products for longer and make support tems known to customers at purchase time.

If a product needs some kind of vendor software to fulfil its advertised use, then that should be maintained for the life of the product. There is little obligation to add new features but patching security vulnerabilities should be an obligation, along with fixing bricked or otherwise impacted out of warranty devices that suffer due to firmware upgrades etc.

There needs to be a huge change in mentality in this area and there's no doubt in my mind that a yearly upgrade cycle for major software is too fast to manage safely. 

Careful what you wish for:  Adding legislative requirements will likely increase initial purchase price.  It would only apply to the countries/states that enacted the legislation.    Imagine if Microsoft was required to support Internet Explorer for another 7-10 years...  IE won't run on Windows 11, and will no longer be supported on Win10 in about a year.  IE hasn't been supported on a handful of other OS's for a long time.  Sometimes you can buy legacy support for some products (generally at high prices).  I understand one US Government department was still paying for OS/2 operating system support from IBM fairly recently, which must be an extreme example.  Microsoft sometimes offers support for software products to corporations after normal end of life, generally for a fairly high price.  Other software and hardware suppliers have similar policies.  Usually, paid support after end of life is not made available to individuals.  Companies can sometimes have third party support after end of life for hardware/software (also at relatively high prices).

New legislation would likely only apply for purchases made after the date such legislation was enacted.  In the case of software and hardware, the warranty generally explicitly defines support length.  Most software and hardware warranties limit liability, state that if you disagree, your option is to return the item. Many say that disputes must be settled by arbitration (not in court), and that if you do not win the arbitration, you pay the cost of arbitration (including any costs incurred by the other party).  End of life in software and hardware is generally defined on the manufacturer's website, and does not mean the length of time the device/software will actually run.  I still see Win95 occasionally, and suspect there are some pre-WinTel PCs (Z80s and such), and pre-Intel Macs (Motorola 68000) still running, but neither has been supported for a long time.  

Such legislation would potentially lead to similar legislation against car/truck manufacturers, car/truck parts manufacturers, appliance makers, financial products, food items...