Long TSMC’s largest customer, Apple designs its own silicon and runs one of the largest installed device bases in the world. In this corpus it is a foil rather than a frontier actor: NVIDIA displaces it as TSMC’s top customer as the silicon food chain inverts toward datacenters, it puts Siri on Gemini rather than on a model of its own, and it pays more per phone as AI outbids it for memory.
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Apple
Consumer-electronics and in-house-silicon giant that appears in this corpus mostly as the incumbent being displaced in the chip supply chain and as a late, outsourcing adopter of frontier models.
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