Apple A16 SoC Now Manufactured In Arizona (appleinsider.com)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/09/18/2157259/apple-a16-soc-now-manufactured-in-arizona
- Source link: https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/09/17/apple-a16-chip-is-now-being-produced-in-the-usa
> According to [3]sources of Tim Culpan, Phase 1 of TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona is making the A16 SoC of the iPhone 14 Pro in "small, but significant, numbers. The production is largely a test for the facility at this stage, but more production is expected in the coming months. The volume will ramp up massively once the second stage of the Phase 1 fab actually concludes. If everything stays on schedule, the Arizona plant will hit a target for production sometime in the first half of 2025.
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> Sources say TSMC is achieving yields that are marginally behind those of Taiwan-based factories. Yield parity is expected to happen within months. TSMC has also raised its investment and moved to build additional plants in Arizona, with three set to be constructed in total. The U.S. Commerce Department previously claimed this will create 6,000 direct manufacturing jobs, on top of an estimated 20,000 construction jobs.
[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/09/17/apple-a16-chip-is-now-being-produced-in-the-usa
[2] https://slashdot.org/~NoMoreACs
[3] https://timculpan.substack.com/p/apple-mobile-processors-are-now-made
Hopefully all the previous ones (Score:1)
Built in Taiwan donâ(TM)t start exploding.
Re: Hopefully all the previous ones (Score:2)
Mmm...donats...
Going to need a bigger supply chain (Score:3)
Big picture, it's good infrastructure to have some redundancy of the geographic sort like this. I mean, ideally throughout the supply chains for each tier of chip. Or anything you want a steady supply of.
Paging the open-borders free-traders (Score:2)
I hope we all now understand why outsourcing your industrial capacity to the lowest overseas bidder is a strategic weakness and why having domestic low- and high-value manufacturing is an invaluable asset.
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What kind of paging are we talking about here exactly? The kind that goes Boom!?
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I herd Gewgle has made pagination grate again.
-Spellchecker approved!
Fast! (Score:3)
You've got to hand it to the TSMC project managers.
Most American companies would take 3x or longer to get a fab up and running.
I would like to see a case study or book about this project's management, especially subcontract incentives.
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Apple has boatloads of money, and that talks.
Love or hate them (Score:2)
Love or hate Apple, this is awesome. More of this please. It’s only too bad intel wasn’t up to the task to partner with Apple on this.
No, it's all love from me, this is pure win (Score:1)
Yep. High five to these guys and also to small fabs like the ones ran by Texas Instruments and guys like Globitech. You guys might not be at 2nm, but you still kick ass and make us proud.
Impossible (Score:2)
Americans are far too lazy with their minimum wages, workers rights and pornography!
Re: Impossible (Score:2)
Don't forget the legal weed, shrooms, and pickleball
Obligatory quote from America: World Cop (Score:1)
lol, good points! I'll just quote an old film and say "America, FUCK YEAH. Coming to save the motherfuckin' day YEAH!"
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The factory is almost completely automated. One of the things about all this talk bringing back manufacturing instead it doesn't really bring back the jobs because the only reason we're using as many people on this planet to manufacture shit as we do is because we pay them so little or not at all.