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US TSMC probe puts iPhone chips at risk
You still haven’t addressed Eightzero’s core assertion that everything Donald Trump does is transactional (quid pro quo), and it’s Tim Cook’s job to manage that reality. The fact you think he “believes” in Donald Trump is telling.jdw said:
Opening Post, my friend? Sorry, but I thought it was crystal clear, even without me mentioning the forum handle, that I was talking about the post by Eightzero, which as you know is NOT the Opening Post.tenthousandthings said:
This article is about the consequences of a Trump executive order. Do you have a position on that? Biden extended it because it’s wide open to interpretation, so his administration can move the goalposts and do what they want with it. In this case, it appears they are looking at something, but what Biden does with it is up to him.jdw said:The thinly veiled slight against Trump via the "dictator" remark by an obviously left-leaning person in this forum really does raise a good question about which Presidential candidate would act or act the most quickly to protect American interests by protecting Apple from harm. Based on what I've seen, it would most likely be the so-called dictator.
The OP’s comment that you’ve objected to isn’t “thinly-veiled” — it’s talking about how Trump’s world is all about quid pro quo, so “Tim Apple” (itself a Trump cognitive glitch) will have to give him something to get him to not blow up arguably the most profitable and productive technological partnership of our time (Apple and TSMC).
In answer to your question, I am not worried about Trump and the executive order because Trump will do whatever it takes to protect American interests domestically and abroad (as per his own promises), and Apple is a big part of that. He would defend Apple regardless of past executive action by way of new executive action, if required. Whether you support or opposed Trump, I think you probably know he would do that too. Tim Cook certainly believes it. Otherwise, why reach out to Trump at all? Cook knows. He really knows!
DJT is currently holding events in blue states (where the money is), raising funds to challenge the election after he loses. He’s not even trying to win. The big money was in winning the nomination and taking over the GOP. He will take a sizable portion of the proceeds for himself and his own legal problems (in that order), but whatever remains will be used to once again attempt to overturn a US presidential election that he has lost.
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US TSMC probe puts iPhone chips at risk
This article is about the consequences of a Trump executive order. Do you have a position on that? Biden extended it because it’s wide open to interpretation, so his administration can move the goalposts and do what they want with it. In this case, it appears they are looking at something, but what Biden does with it is up to him.jdw said:The thinly veiled slight against Trump via the "dictator" remark by an obviously left-leaning person in this forum really does raise a good question about which Presidential candidate would act or act the most quickly to protect American interests by protecting Apple from harm. Based on what I've seen, it would most likely be the so-called dictator.
The OP’s comment that you’ve objected to isn’t “thinly-veiled” — it’s talking about how Trump’s world is all about quid pro quo, so “Tim Apple” (itself a Trump cognitive glitch) will have to give him something to get him to not blow up arguably the most profitable and productive technological partnership of our time (Apple and TSMC). -
Apple A20 chip packaging tech may give iPhone 18 more RAM, speed, and run cooler
No, I think it is different from CoWoS — I’m not sure but I think WMCM is an industry term, TSMC will have its own name for it. It’s new, they haven’t announced it, and Apple is likely to be the first to use it.tht said:I’m confused. Why? Maybe they add the cell modem as another die in an A-series package? And is this WMCM tech is the same as TSMC’s CoWoS packaging tech? That’s not cheap.
The big news here is context. Apple uses chip-first InFO tech for both iPhone/iPad (InFO-PoP) and the Ultra (InFO-oS, formerly known as InFO-LSI). If they are moving away from InFO for the iPhone, they might also be doing it for the Mac, and conceivably not just for the Ultra.
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A Russian YouTuber may have tested the new M4 MacBook Pro
The only thing that is very, very remotely “possible” about this is the hardware might be stolen, but the packaging is plainly fake, and not even a quality fake
I don’t know what a preview Mac16,1 running Sequoia would say in About This Mac, but that claim (that the M4 MacBook Pro is Mac16,1) is also questionable. Mac16,1 is likely to be an M4 iMac or perhaps a new M4 Mini. The base M4 MacBook Pro is likely to be Mac16,3. -
High costs mean Apple will limit 2nm processors to iPhone 18 Pro models
That has only happened once, with the A16 Bionic on TSMC N4P. Despite the name, that was the fourth generation of TSMC’s 5nm tech (i.e., made in the same fabs as N5, N5P, and N4 before it), so it went into production earlier than usual.9secondkox2 said:Makes sense. Similar to iPhone 15 offering the new 3nm a17 pro in only the pro models snd the previous gen in regular models.The only caveat is that apple might actually launch 2nm chips late next year, not a year later.
N2 and beyond introduces a new transistor design, so I believe it’s being made in new fabs, different from N3, N3E, and N3P. Very unlikely to go into production early, but I suppose you never know!
