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xdertzyesterday at 2:23 PM3 repliesview on HN

They have no fab for CPUs, they are manufactured by Samsung and TSMC. The bottleneck is in manufacturing RAM not CPUs so there is nothing Apple can do here.


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gizajobyesterday at 9:13 PM

Recently Micron pointed that finger and threw that shade in Apple’s direction saying that their priority for years has been squeezing margins in their favour, so there wasn’t the slack in the system to build the fab capacity that is now desperately required given the sudden need for RAM now that there’s a cause to use it in AI Inference.

Sephrtoday at 1:59 AM

Apple has a fab for CPU R&D. It's not for final production though.

varispeedyesterday at 6:12 PM

Let me rephrase. They have not booked enough capacity at contract manufacturer.