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27 Jan 2025 Acquired TSMC Founder Morris Chang
“Anyway, I (of course) had to accept Jeff Williams’ request. But again, as I just told you, I wasn’t all that worried because what reviewed in my mind, all the characteristics that Apple is looking for in a supplier, technology at that time, we thought we were almost at par with Intel.”
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…Fair enough. Look where we are in 2025. . Anyway, I (of course) had to accept Jeff Williams’ request. But again, as I just told you, I wasn’t all that worried because what reviewed in my mind, all the characteristics that Apple is looking for in a supplier, technology at that time, we thought we were almost at par with Intel. Almost. In fact, I thought we were at par with Intel at that time. Manufacturing, I thought we were better than Intel. And customer trust, we thought that our customers trusted us more than Intel’s customers trusted Intel. I wasn’t too worried. I also thought that when Jeff Williams told me the highest level of intel, I thought he was talking about somebody like Andy Grove who was retired, of course, but it turned out that he was only talking about the CEO of Intel at that time. I knew that only later. Would that have been Bob Swan or Paul Otellini?…
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