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Sources: Tim Cook approved the doubling of the PA chip budget in 2023 after John Giannandrea asked for more GPU, but the director Luca Maestri reduced the increase in less than half– Even before President Trump’s prices threaten to upset Apple’s manufacturing activities in China, the business struggle …
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