"TSMC’s first Arizona chips are now in production, and Apple is ready to be the first cab off the rank with mobile processors made using the foundry’s 5nm process.

Apple’s A16 SoC, which first debuted two years ago in the iPhone 14 Pro, is currently being manufactured at Phase 1 of TSMC’s Fab 21 in Arizona in small, but significant, numbers, my sources tell me. Volume will ramp up considerably when the second stage of the Phase 1 fab is completed and production is underway, putting the Arizona project on track to hit its target for production in the first-half of 2025."

https://timculpan.substack.com/p/apple-mobile-processors-are-now-made 

 I hope the deal was, 

"help us make chips, and we'll use our awesome military to definitely defend Taiwan when the war starts," 

And not, 
"Help us, or else, and we're not defending you anyways."

I worry when Republicans and libertarians say Taiwan is the same as Ukraine. Its not. 

 We'll never know 

 Hopefully