Apple has 100bn in available cash, they defiantly do have the capital to make an offer if they wanted

Where'd you get that number?

Wikipedia seem to put it at a max under $150b[0]

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC

Apple's market cap is 2.333T.

It's called a stock swap, and Apple could easily accomplish it if from a financial perspective.

They could never achieve it with governments and regulators, however. Like 0.00% chance. Even if the government of Taiwan allowed it, there would be a long line of other governments and regulators blocking it.

They can pay with:

1. Bank loans

2. Apple stocks

Completely doable.