According to the latest report, Apple’s chip manufacturing partner TSMC has begun trial production of chips based on its 3nm process (called N3).
The report said that TSMC will push the 3nm process to mass production by the fourth quarter of 2022, and begin shipping 3nm chips to customers such as Apple and Intel in the first quarter of 2023.
At present, Apple’s self-developed chips including A15, M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max use 5nm process technology. As usual, this technological advancement should improve performance and power efficiency, which could speed up and/or increase battery life in future iPhones and Macs.
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The first batch of Apple Silicon Macs with M1 chips has provided industry-leading performance per watt while running with impressive quietness and coolness and an initial lot of Apple devices using 3nm chips are expected to debut in 2023, including iPhone 15/Pro series models using A17 chips and Apple Silicon Mac computers using M3 chips.
Moreover, the Information reported last month that some M3 chips will have up to four dies, which may translate into up to 40 core CPUs for these chips, while M1 chips have 8 cores, and M1 Pro and M1 Max chips have 10 dies.
At the same time, the M2 chip used in the 2022 Mac and the A16 chip of the iPhone 14/Pro is expected to use the TSMC N4 process, which is another iteration of its 5nm process.
Qualcomm also recently announced the 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, which is currently based on Samsung’s 4nm process technology. It is said that Intel has also set its target for 2023 as 3nm technology.
