Hot off of Apple analyst Ming-Chu Kuo's Twitter feed is this potent tidbit of info about the upcoming iPhone 15 that may scare some. According to Kuo, we could see a significant price hike thanks partly to Apple not having to pay chipmaker TSMC for any defective 3nm chips.
TSMC produces the new advanced 3nm process chips for Apple but does not charge them for nodes with defective chips thanks to a special deal with the maker of the mega populate iPhones. Kuo states, "Apple has always asked TSMC to provide the world's latest advanced node production services. Because the latest advanced node has many defective chips in the early production stage, Apple has always purchased finished goods. And TSMC allocates most of the cost of defective chips to the selling price of each finished chip."
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