Apple Silicon is the set of Apple processors designed by themselves on the ARM architecture. After taking the plunge with introducing the M1 chip years ago and integrating them into your MacBook, iPad Pro or iMac, it has done the transformation at the material level begins to make sense which has been researched with the independence of Intel chips. Some media ensure that the next Apple chips will be 3 nanometer chips, with greater power and energy efficiency capable of increasing the performance of the devices, and they will also be produced by TSMC in its new factory in Arizona in the United States.
Apple’s next 3-nanometer chips, produced in the US
Internal hardware technology is key to improving resource optimization within a device. When we talk about chip sizes, we are talking about a correlation between the size of the transistors inside the processor. Basically, the smaller a transistor, the faster electricity can flow through it and therefore increase the speed at which you can solve the equations the system gives you. Moreover, by reducing the size of the transistors, the size of the processors is reduced and therefore we are reducing the size they occupy inside the devices as well as their thickness in order to create smaller and more efficient devices.
Hence the importance of generate new processors with smaller transistors which are capable of improving performance from generation to generation. Currently, Apple’s A16 chip, the one found for example in the iPhone 14 Pro, is a 5 nanometer chip. Thanks to information from a Chinese analyst, Morris Chang, we know that the company that supplies processors to Apple, TSMC,
3nm, TSMC, currently has a plan, but it hasn’t been fully finalized. The second phase is almost complete, at the same site in Arizona. 5nm is phase one, 3nm is phase two.
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TSMC’s 3nm chips already in test for iPhone and Mac
twelve billion dollars this is the money invested by TSMC, the Taiwanese company, to produce 5 nanometer chips on US soil. Some of these chips are the A16 chip or the M2 chip. However, the next M2 Pro, M3 chips or the A17 chip of the iPhone 15 Pro could be 3 nanometer chips.
TSMC could be ready to design and produce chips of this size with a technology called “N3” in its American factory. This type of processor would increase the logic capacity by 70%, the speed by 15% at the same power and up to 30% if the power is reduced to reach the same speed as the current one. It’s quite a challenge at the hardware level that could increase the speed of the next Apple devices and produced in the United States.
