Apple Will Source Chips From TSMC's Arizona Fab

Apple will use TSMC's Arizona fab that is currently under construction and set to come online in 2024 to make its chips, the company's head Tim Cook told employees at an internal meeting in Germany, reports Bloomberg. The decision will lower Apple's reliance on TSMC's production capacities in Taiwan, though the company will likely continue to source top-of-the-range system-on-chips from Taiwan.

"We have already made a decision to be buying out of a plant in Arizona, and this plant in Arizona starts up in '24, so we've got about two years ahead of us on that one, maybe a little less," Tim Cook is quoted as saying. "And in Europe, I'm sure that we will also source from Europe as those plans become more apparent."

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Anton Shilov
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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

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