TSMC, the leading advanced chipmaker, will soon start shipping 3nm chip orders soon, with Apple being its first customer. But these cutting edge processors will not be for the upcoming iPhone 14 series.
The world’s largest contract chipmaker’s largest customer is also the Cupertino based giant as well. The latter will start received the 3nm chips, however, these are not for the upcoming iPhone 14 Pro series models. For those unaware, the iPhone 14 series will be arriving with the 4nm based A16 Bionic chipset for the Pro models of the iPhone 14 Pro models, while the base and Max variant will arrive with the last gen 5nm A15 Bionic chipset.
The new 3nm chips that Apple has ordered is basically for the next gen PC chipsets, which is the M2 Pro processor. It is the first 3nm process based chip that the brand will ship, with the first 3nm chip powered iPhone likely being the iPhone 15 series that will launch in 2023.
To put things simply, the jump in generation also means that the next gen chips will be more powerful as well as energy efficient while having a higher transistor count in the chips. Based on what TSMC said, the 3nm FinFET chips will reduce energy consumption by 25 to 30 percent while increasing power by 10 to 15 percent over the previous gen 5nm FinFET based chips.
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