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What did come as a surprise was the time frame for when Apple would begin receiving N3 chips (via Google translation from Chinese):Īpple is a priority customer for TSMC's advanced manufacturing process.
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Thus, the report from Commercial Times that Apple would be the first customer for N3 came as no surprise. Apple has pumped a huge amount of revenue into the company, and since 2016 TSMC's annual revenue has nearly doubled. TSMC has been the sole supplier for Apple's custom Silicon since the A10 Fusion processor of iPhone 7, released in September 2016. It stood to reason that Apple would get dibs on TSMC's most advanced N3 process (also referred to as "3 nm"), since the two companies have worked so closely together for years. Taiwan's Commercial Times reports that Apple will be the first customer for TSMC's "3 nm" process in the second half of the year Some re-reporting of the Taiwanese Commercial Times article has Apple products with N3 chips coming out by the end of the year, but this is extremely doubtful. What isn't clear is when Apple will receive high volumes of N3 chips to use in its products.
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( NASDAQ: AAPL) will be the first customer to use Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited's ( TSM) ("TSMC") most advanced process, dubbed N3. Nikada/iStock Unreleased via Getty ImagesĪ report out of Taiwan claims that Apple Inc.