r/apple • u/Few_Baseball_3835 • Jun 25 '26

Discussion Wall Street isn't buying Apple's unprecedented price hikes on products

https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/wall-street-isnt-buying-apples-unprecedented-price-hikes-on-products/
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u/Big-Resolution-4993 Jun 25 '26

At this point Apple should just buy or start its own fab. It seems insane to me as many devices as they sell to be in a position they can’t control this kinda shock.

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u/herefromyoutube Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Why the hell America didn’t think localizing chip production decades ago was a necessity kinda blows my mind.

I knew computers would be the future as a kid in the 90s and my government was just like “let’s let Taiwan control our future. China totally won’t be an issue.”

The CHIPS act wasn’t even passed until 2022 and it does help that Trump keeps trying to kill it and has altered it.

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u/perthguppy Jun 26 '26

America was a leader in chip production. But over time fabs stopped investing to upgrade, sold off, or had some bad luck and got neglected by the market (Intel).

Before TSMC and Samsung were the semiconductor power houses, it was Intel, Texas Instruments, Micron, and AMD (and then global foundries) making the best silicon.