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Tim Culpan
Personal blog · culpium.combusinesshardwareeconomics
Tim Culpan's personal blog at culpium.com covers business, hardware and economics. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Tim Culpan's reporting on Apple's supply chain, including a post on Apple seeking to boost Mac Neo processor production. The linked post is cited for details on where the chips come from.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Exclusive news plus unparalleled insights and analysis on the global economy, supply chains, and technology from a veteran of Asian technology journalism. Independent. Culpium: noun [U] — a cure for lack of knowledge, understanding or clarity. Click to read Culpium, by Tim Culpan, a Substack publ
What Hacker News says?
More detailed is the source they cite: https://www.culpium.com/p/apple-in-talks-to-boost-mac-neo-pr... Apparently the processors for the Neo are 5 core rejects from iphone 16, (which is no longer in production), which is a 6 core A18 cpu.
Comment linking /p/apple-in-talks-to-boost-mac-neo-production
on “Apple is running out of A18 Pro chips for the MacBook Neo”Submitted TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped as a story · 220 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple, Suppliers Are Counting the Cost of iPhone Air Failure as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Micron and the Myth of American Memory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Premier Chipmaker Is Facing Its Biggest Crisis Yet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple in Talks to Boost Mac Neo Production as Sales Exceed Expectations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TSMC's N2 Node Is Almost Booked Out for the Next Two Years as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intel Is Struggling to Supply Laptop Chips Built Around Its New 18A Node as a story · 1 points
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