Apple chip supplier is busy producing cutting-edge chips

In what might be a positive sign for a turnaround in smartphone demand, DigiTimes reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (...

In what might be a positive sign for a turnaround in smartphone demand, DigiTimes reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has tripled the lead time it needs to churn out chips using its 7nm process. The company is the largest foundry in the world and manufacturers chips designed by companies without the facilities required to produce these chips themselves. That would include firms like Apple, Huawei, and Qualcomm. TSMC said that last year it was "manufacturing 10,436 different products using 261 distinct technologies for 481 different customers," but Apple is responsible ...

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