It’s not crazy at all, TSMC makes their chips just like TSMC makes your nvidia chips, your AMD chips, and even your Intel GPU chips. Why would it surprise anyone that they can make decent chips for literally any company that pays them to? Honestly Apple would have had to fuck up SEVERELY to have their chips made by TSMC on the 5nm process and NOT perform decently.
It’s not crazy at all, TSMC makes their chips just like TSMC makes your nvidia chips, your AMD chips, and even your Intel GPU chips. Why would it surprise anyone that they can make decent chips for literally any company that pays them to? Honestly Apple would have had to fuck up SEVERELY to have their chips made by TSMC on the 5nm process and NOT perform decently.
TSMC is a manufacturer only, they do not have a role in the design of the chips.