Apple and TSMC are a perfect click team. When Apple needs a masculin to build semiconductor for any of its devices, it turns into TSMC and it appears that the Taiwan -based company has the ability to have the ability to the largest customer. But there was a time when Apple, TSMC ended as Apple and Intel. The time was February 2011, and the founder of TSMC Maurice Chang remembers what happened. Tell the story recently acquired On YouTube.

Tim Cook took just a few months to choose TSMC on Intel as exclusive Apple

So it was February 2011 when the CEO of Intel Paul otellini spoke Tim Cook about taking the iPhone manufacturing function. Apple CEO Cook was not at the time and was not until August of that year when Steve Jobs felt that he had to leave Apple, this cooking was given the position of the CEO forever. However, as the CEO of Apple Operations at the time, and with increasing cancer of function (he will surrender to pancreatic cancer in October of that year), it will not be unusual for Tim Cook Being the person in Apple that Otilini was talking to.

It took Cook just a few months to choose TSMC via Intel to create chips for the iPhone. Intel had an Apple supply feature with Mac operating system treatments, but any feature may have thought it was at that time an illusion. After all, Zhang said in the interview that at the time Cook Intel refused, Zhang told: "Intel does not know how to be a masculine."

Zhang noted that TSMC has manufacturing capabilities that Intel did not have at the time, and when it comes to unusual requests from customers, TSMC responded to each one regardless of the extent of acceptance of the wall. "Some of them were crazy, some were irrational, but we respond to every request gently. Intel never did so," said Zhang. This ability to give TSMC customers may be time and effort is one of the things that led Apple to choose the company to be its exclusive mastery.

TSMC builds all A-Series and M-Series cards for iPhone, iPad and Mac

To this day, TSMC creates all iPhone, iPad and Mac chips, including iPhone and some iPad models. Apple has developed M-Series slices, which was also designed by TSMC, to replace Intel processors on Mac even though the M-Series is now used to run some iPad models.

TSMC is included as large technology companies such as Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek, AMD, Nvidia and Broadcom and currently have a market value of $ 902 billion. Meanwhile, Intel, which was doing some Foundry Contracted works in the past, decided to make such work a greater part of the company and presented Intel Foundry in February 2024.

Looking for Fables customers (companies that design their chips but do not have any manufacturing facilities), Intel was exposed to a huge fish last September when the Amson's Aws Cloud Services signed a deal with Intel to produce AI chips. But the company has been pouring the red ink, which is one of the reasons why the company has spent a difficult time over the past 12 months. With its shares drop around 54 % over the past 12 months, the Intel value is 85 billion or less than 10 % of the current evaluation of TSMC.

TSMC has a 64.9 % controlling stake in the Global Semiconductor Mescpes in the third quarter of 2024. This was from the 62 % segment of the company owned by the company during the second quarter of 2024. However, the poor returns affected the work that left Samsung Foundry with a 9.3 % stake in the third quarter of 2024.