It fully relies on processors from the Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC Apple already since 2016. It was in this year that he bet on it as the exclusive supplier of the A10 Fusion chipset for iPhones 7 and 7 Plus, which eventually turned out to be a hit in the dark. A year later because Apple TSMC outsourced the production of the A11 Bionic chipset for the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X, and is sourcing the A12 chips from it for the upcoming iPhones this year. They haven't even been shown to the world yet, so we don't know how much intergenerational progress TSMC's chipsets have made, but rumors are already starting to Apple determined to entrust the production of processors to Taiwanancnext year as well.
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The news that TSMC will become the exclusive supplier of A13 processors for 2019 iPhones comes from industry analysts contacted by EE Times, who are apparently familiar with the company's future plans. Applu and its suppliers. Chipsets from TSMC should continue to maintain a very high level of quality, so they Apple will have no reason to be angry. Especially when Taiwananci is constantly trying to innovate its manufacturing processes, thanks to which they are able to produce increasingly high-quality chipsets. While the A10 Fusion was manufactured using the 16nm method, the A11 Bionic has already been manufactured by TSMC using the 10nm method, and this year's A12 should reportedly be manufactured using the 7nm method, which should make it a bit more economical and, above all, more powerful, which of course Apple requires
Even in this year's iPhonewhere we can find processors from TSMC:
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The news about the exclusive supplier of chipsets by TSMC will certainly not please South Korean Samsung, which was also the exclusive supplier of chipsets for iPhones for many years. He lost his position after a tug-of-war with TSMC in 2016. However, the year before that he still managed to participate in the production of A9 chips embedded in the iPhone 6s and SE.
This will be a brutal performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They were also the worst SoTs, those from Samsung overheated and had much higher consumption compared to TSMC. I'm not surprised apple wants to stay with TSMC