• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    6 months ago

    It could be a De Beers situation where Apple has essentially cornered the market in these minerals, but I have my doubts because I doubt Apple is making hardware that needs these minerals and, say, Google is not. Sure, Apple’s M3 chip is proprietary, but I would be surprised if it needed some sort of unique mineral composition.

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      6 months ago

      apples not producing the chip in house, only the design. if apple had control of the materials, it would be the non cpu/memory conponents.