News Apple expects to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. factories this year

[Admin]

Apple plans to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. facilities in 2025 — including tens of millions from TSMC’s Arizona fab — while investing $500 billion to expand its American operations.

Apple expects to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. factories this year : Read more

 

[Pierce2623]

Of course Apple buys a buttload of chips that aren’t 3nm….They still sell the iPhone 11 for like $200 not to mention every other gen between that and the current one.

 

[bit_user]

Each of Apple's devices contains dozens of humble ICs, however — amplifiers, power management ICs (PMICs), display drivers, radio front-end modules (FEMs), microcontrollers, retimers, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth modules, Ethernet controllers, and tens of others — that do not need the most advanced fabrication technologies, and which are made in the U.S. To that end, it is not surprising that Apple may be sourcing billions of chips made in the U.S. already.

This number is so huge that I'd be surprised if Apple wasn't using the most expansive definition of "chip" to include basically all surface-mount components, down to humble resistors and diodes.

 

[Eximo]

Quick look a the 13 Pro shows at least 18 packages that could be called "chips" 18 x 100 million phones, yeah sounds about right, only the one model. And then all the laptops, and tablets, etc.

Saw a figure for 217 million total devices sold last year.

 

[thisisaname]

This number is so huge that I'd be surprised if Apple wasn't using the most expansive definition of "chip" to include basically all surface-mount components, down to humble resistors and diodes.

Yes I too was wondering what they defined as chips.