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runeks on Feb 22, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple orders entire supply of TSMC's 3nm chips for...

Because they don't have the money.

Apple's net income has been at least $20bn every quarter for the past two years[1]. Both Intel and AMD make a small fraction of that[2][3].

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/net-inc...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTC/intel/net-inc...

[3] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMD/amd/net-income

rekoil on Feb 22, 2023 [–]

Not so much that they don't have the money (they don't, I agree), but the bigger issue is even if they could their margins aren't nearly as good as Apples are.

DSingularity on Feb 23, 2023 | [–]

Their potential margins. So they would be taking large risk to potentially make much less.

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