It’s not as easy, as TSMC needs ASML hardware, which wouldn’t sell it to TSMC anymore because they also want to sell to US companies.

Yes, but it would be an even bigger blow to TSMC if all US companies would stop buying from them. I’m pretty sure nvidia, AMD and Apple make a very sizable part of their customer base.

How does that get around paying? You don’t pay for the clients but their servers.

You mean like VW and the Golf 2? Just because it’s the same name, doesn’t mean it’s the same car.

I don’t think a budget deck is likely tbh. The non oled deck already goes for 250 on sales. To make a clear distinction the budget one would need to be <150. And I don’t think that’s feasible with all the other hardware necessary alone. Except making it a lot smaller which I don’t think is a good approach.

I mean, u know that SpaceXs main income is flying shit around for NASA? If that was unexpected for you, I have bad news.

The biggest thing that did it for me was who runs Nord? Not business entities but the people.

Protons leadership is out in the open with their names (fwiw their CEO is even on the Higgs paper, lol), but Nord has a very intransparent structure.

They were allowed to charge less, just not mention or link to it in any way. Proton has been doing it for a while that the Apple in-app purchases are roughly 30% higher.