Top tech news for Wednesday, December 7, 2022
The worst of the global chip shortage may now (thankfully) be behind us, but the desire to get more processors manufactured in the US hasn’t gone away. So it shouldn’t come us much of a surprise that both Apple CEO Tim Cook and POTUS himself Joe Biden saw fit to attend the launch of chip-maker TSMC’s upcoming Arizona facility. Cook confirmed that Apple plans to use chips made at the facility in iPhones and Macs. “These chips can be proudly stamped ‘Made in America,’” he said.
Finally, if you haven’t checked out the comic we published yesterday then I highly recommended it. It’s called “How to Replace the Sky” and it’s about… well… I’ll let you discover it for yourself.
Anyway, here’s a silly tweet: