Report: Apple to use TSMC's upcoming 3nm node (N3E) for the next iPhone and Mac chips

14 September 2022
The original 3nm node, N3, may be used for some iPads, but the Apple A17 and M3 chips will likely wait for the superior N3E node.

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  • 27 Sep 2022

Anonymous, 15 Sep 2022How are they going to overcome Quantum tunneling? Will not ... moreI've heard that vertical stacking will be a way to keep growing transistors density

    Anonymous, 15 Sep 2022No home button no buyBuy yourself an iPhone SE 2020/2022 or an older iPhone 8 series if you need physical home button.

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      • 15 Sep 2022

      How are they going to overcome Quantum tunneling? Will not transistors become so small as to be unreliable?

        Anonymous, 15 Sep 2022Interesting thing from China about 14 pro max " As... more14 Pro Max have great camera https://youtu.be/wfH2qpVvpaw just like this 14 Pro Max vs S22 ultra video shows.

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          • tuh
          • 15 Sep 2022

          Next year iphone 15 series will using Type C because Euro zone policy

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            • sEB
            • 15 Sep 2022

            As long as iPhone is still using the L port for charging, all iPhone are same, they all are still more than good.

              George399, 14 Sep 2022TSMC or not, those chipsets overheat it depends on architecture design. not just the chip manufacturer

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                • 15 Sep 2022

                George399, 15 Sep 2022A13, A14 and A15 overheats. Use common senseSo will A16

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                  • 15 Sep 2022

                  Interesting thing from China about 14 pro max

                  " As I expected, the camera still sucks, give me a 48mp bayer, cook"

                  " The problem of quadbayer 48mp is still obvious, the improvement on pro raw is obvious, but the shutter is too slow and the readout speed is not enough, so taking a 48mp is very slow, after reading this, I only think 48mp bayer is obvious It is in the planned route of Guozi, but the current isp is not strong enough, and the reading speed of the sensor is not enough, so there will be a 48mp scene that is the same as the chrysanthemum of the year."

                  " I suggest you don't argue with me. Guozi's camera this year is almost not improved, and the pro raw distance is still far from being fully usable. The default 12mp only improves a little detail by the fusion algorithm, and most of them are still confused."

                  " Apple's future direction should be to do full-pixel high-speed readout, hoping to achieve crispy chicken, and then use 48mp oversampling to output a high-quality and high-quality 12mp, fast and good picture quality, and then provide a manual button, you can For users to choose full pixel output, and perform multi-frame synthesis, assist with hardware functions such as clear-hdr, all in all, 48mp bayer is very promising. With raw lossless compression algorithm, it can really catch up with many 1-inch card machines."


                  Do not worry. Bias youtubers are ready to fool you into believing it is better than all other.

                    sixtymes, 14 Sep 2022you dont know that, they arent even out for another year. t... moreA13, A14 and A15 overheats. Use common sense

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                      • 15 Sep 2022

                      George399, 14 Sep 2022TSMC or not, those chipsets overheat 7nm is most heat efficient and practical

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                        • Anonymous
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                        • 15 Sep 2022

                        No home button no buy

                          George399, 14 Sep 2022TSMC or not, those chipsets overheat you dont know that, they arent even out for another year. the current yes, but you havent a clue, nor does anyone else until they are tested and in use.

                            N3 for iPads?

                            Which iPads?
                            The pros that use the M series meaning the MacBooks will also be on N3?
                            Or the Air/mini that have the iPhone chips meaning A17 (or even an A16 revision) will be on N3 and not N3E?

                            That makes no sense.

                              TSMC or not, those chipsets overheat

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                                • DGV
                                • 14 Sep 2022

                                small step but I wait for 2nm and gaa

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                                  • 14 Sep 2022

                                  Everything, even the same samsung that manufactures soc, s passed to the node of TSMC and google? no, that is going to take the chips that samsung abandoned, but with another name, to sell those hot ovens to the few who buy the pixels