Apple's Chipmaker Pledges $100 Billion More for US Plants

[BaldiMac]

No, that's the Biden model.

I think we can agree that both the 46 and 47 models both have an enhanced sleep mode. It just that the 47 model insists that no sleep mode exists despite evidence that it activates randomly in public.

 

[Happy_John]

I think we can agree that both the 46 and 47 models both have an enhanced sleep mode. It just that the 47 model insists that no sleep mode exists despite evidence that it activates randomly in public.

At some point soon, mission-critical positions will have to be filled with candidates from more recent generations.

No amount of software updates can mitigate the fact that the hardware is just too old.

 

[ugahairydawgs]

That is certainly the politically correct way of stating it. Others might say tariffs are used as an extortion tool to get countries to bend to our President's whim.

Sure. In a perfect world we'd have an actual free market across the world with no tariffs. But I don't know that we should unilaterally disarm either and there doesn't seem to be a unanimous desire to kill off tariffs (including the President, who for some reason seems to love them as a matter of practice). Even the trade agreements we've had with other countries have just been largely reductions in what we charge each other rather than any kind of full elimination.

 

[CapitalIdea]

Nah I didn't feel the need to because it was all nonsequitor nonsense.

Typical maga milquetoast technique. Talk a lot, and bail when you’re asked to stand by your words. Enjoy your L.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Will these investment pledges actually be realized, or are these pledges of investments just placeholders until the administration in the WH changes?

Pledges, agreements, and "memorandums of understanding" are not carved in stone, and, especially under the current administration, shouldn't be treated as "future fact".

It's not actual until it is actual.

Considering TSMC broke ground more than a year ago on its third fab in Arizona and bought 900 acres of land in January 2026 for additional fabs, these are a little more than placeholders.

 

[jjrtiger]

Amazing to see folks are dissatisfied with economic development in America, just because POTUS is encouraging investment (doing his job). Take a breath!

 

[Happy_John]

Considering TSMC broke ground more than a year ago on its third fab in Arizona and bought 900 acres of land in January 2026 for additional fabs, these are a little more than placeholders.

The initial inward investment, yes.

But actually spending that investment takes time, as you’ve said above. The bought the land. They have to build the fab, staff the fab and get it functional and producing. And I have no doubt this was costed out and connected to that initial investment. Not from this new plague to invest.

My point is that we’re at a point in time where both people and UEFA USA rooms, whether businesses, state, or other, have accepted that, from the top down, agreements are not adhered to and unilateral u-turns are made on a whim.

The more one parry in an agreement suspects that the other patty won’t necessarily stick to their word, and day may be night tomorrow, the less likely they are to hold the agreement when it becomes slightly less beneficial to respect the value of their own word.

In short, people have always scr***ed other people over, on business and in politics, and the tech industry more than others.

But in the past few years, both the level of the amount of “unreliable actors” and the blatency has significantly escalated.

Trust is at a low. And people and organisation act accordingly in response to that.

Until the tranches of investment do come inward, once it is actually Sieny, then, realisticly. it can’t be assumed that it’s a future fact that it will actually happen.

There are many many things that would take a plague of future investment off the table.