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Can you book slots with TSMC for 3nm chips to put in another device?

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> Can you book slots with TSMC for 3nm chips to put in another device?

I imagine if Google or Microsoft turned up to TSMC and offered to beat Apple's price with similar guarantees of volume and capacity utilisation, TSMC would be happy to have that conversation, yes.




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