iPhone maker wants Trump administration to sign off on purchases to ease pressure from rising semiconductor prices.
After they’ve already raised their own prices; now they’re just double dipping.
Hey now. A gold statue doesn‘t pay for itself! No wait… I guess it does. Nevermind.
If iOS and macOS 26 were about AI everywhere, making them the “fuck around” release, 27 can be the “find out” release. Freeze new features and focus all effort on making the system as RAM and space-efficient. Cut the fat, and replace the convenient, memory-heavy data structures we use today with old-school lightweight alternatives (i.e., never use a string when a word-sized numeric value will do — and on a 64-bit machine, it’ll do a lot of the time, coalesce multiple booleans/enums into bitfields, replace top-heavy formats like XML where there isn’t a good reason for them, and so on).
Where’s the profit in that?
Pray that I don’t alter the deal further
Raised prices and announced less RAM for non-pro models
“Apple choosing to partner with a Chinese military company would be a grave mistake,” John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House China committee, told the FT.
“Helping the [Chinese Communist Party] succeed in its plans to dominate critical supply chains will make our country’s tech industry and economy more dependent on China at a time when we must build secure tech supply chains with our allies,” Moolenaar said.
If Micron wants a protected market, then I think that it’s not unreasonable to also require that it come with an obligation to make enough memory to meet demand. Maybe they will in the long term, but they clearly are not doing so now and won’t be for the next 18 months.
CMXT is not going to refrain from producing memory if Apple doesn’t buy from them. Memory is a commodity. As long as there is someone in the world who wants to buy memory — and there is a lot of pent-up demand out there — CMXT is going to be able to sell their memory.
If the Chinese government wants to subsidize memory production, great. Right now, we don’t have enough, so that’s solving a problem we have using China’s resources. If Micron starts to get in trouble down the line, if they can’t produce at competitive prices, and we view it as a national security imperative to have domestic memory production, then look at protection.
“Apple choosing to partner with a Chinese military company would be a grave mistake,” John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House China committee, told the FT.
Said the guy causing the AI crisis…
