Apple turns to Europe for chip manufacturing  

Starting from 2024

Trying to reduce its dependence on Asian countries, Apple is turning to the US and Europe for its chips. Information from Bloomberg reports that Tim Cook, during his meeting with a group of engineers in Germany, told them:

Apple has already made the decision to acquire a factory in Arizona. Regardless of your views, producing 60% anywhere is probably not a good strategy.

Cook ‘s “ 60% ” refers to Taiwan, where 60% of the world’s processor output is produced. TSMC is the exclusive manufacturer of Apple’s chips, while also producing chips for NVIDIA, MediaTek, AMD and ARM. The Arizona plant is expected to be operational in 2024, with the capacity to produce 20,000 chips per month in 5nm architecture.

Apple plans to use TSMC’s 3nm architecture for its A17 processor in 2023, so the role of the Arizona plant is unclear. Maybe use it for chips intended for other devices. But Cook added:

I am sure that we will also have production in Europe, with our plans to be revealed in the future.

Despite Cook’s vague statement, Bloomberg reports that TSMC is in talks with the German government to build factories in the country. Europe, like the US, is trying to woo chipmakers using the EU Chips Act , which came into effect in April, to ” stimulate the competitiveness and resilience of semiconductor technologies and applications .”