[Tai_Chung]

I would have thought the US Military would be the largest customer.

I thought the whole point of building the plant is to not have to import our chips from Taiwan during a war with China.

[Zathras]

The military doesn’t use 3nm and smaller process.
This is mostly Apple

[GingisK]

I would have thought the US Military would be the largest customer.

The US military doesn't eat more hamburgers than the rest of the United States either. There are more iPhones than tanks, aircraft, and missiles combined.

[rmlew]

No. It is very expensive. Apple, Intel, AMD, and NVidia will be the first users. They will pay very expensive rates to pay for the new FAB and process node. Other companies will get second run after TMSC makes refinements allowing for higher yields and cheaper prices.