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A few years of TSMC being unavailable would cripple consumer electronics in general. Lots of chip vendors all buy their dies from TSMC. It's not just Apple by a long shot.

This is a known problem, potentially one even at the scale of being a national security issue. It's a big part of why there are all these new federal subsidies to try and bring advanced chip-fab back to the US.



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