By the end of the summer, Apple will present its new iPhone. The A16 SoC that will be used on the iPhone 14 will probably not bring notable gains in performance and efficiency. In fact, it will use the same process as the A15 Bionic. It is the famous analyst Ming-Chi Kuo who indicated that according to his information, the next A16 SoC of Apple could continue to use the N5P process of TSMC. Apple was planning to move to 3nm but it seems that TSMC is not able to produce enough chips with the N3 process … In the end the next iPhone could continue to use a SoC in 5nm.
However, to keep up appearances, Apple could equip the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models with the new 3nm chip. The Apple analyst also seems to know that the next evolution of the MacBook Air could continue to use the M1 chip and not the new M2 SoC. The latter could arrive next year on an update of the MacBook Pro range. This would allow Apple to take advantage of the more advanced N4P or N3 process.
iPhone 14: 5nm overload at TSMC?
But won’t this situation create new tensions? As we know, Apple is a privileged customer of TSMC and the release of its new iPhone will undoubtedly “consume” a lot of capacity at TSMC. Problem: the new Ryzen but also the next RTX 40 are also in 5nm at the same TSMC…
