Apple’s chip supplier dragged into a political feud overseas

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company – or TSMC – has found itself at the center of an election campaigning clash in the first days of 2024.Apart from being the largest contract chipmaker and Taiwan’s most important company, TSMC is Apple’s chip supplier and the Cupertino giant is TSMC’s biggest customer. Apart from the sweet deal it managed to cut with TSMC and save a ton of money not so long ago, Apple’s new iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max devices pack something very special as an SoC – TSMC’s A17 Pro chip which is using the 3nm process node....