Vratislav Holub The main supplier of chips for Apple is the Taiwanese company TSMC. It is she who takes care of the production of, for example, the M1 or A14 chip, or the upcoming A15. According to the latest information from the portal Nikkei Asia the company is now preparing to manufacture with a 2nm manufacturing process, which practically puts it miles ahead of the competition. Because of this, a new factory should even be built in the Taiwanese city of Hsinchu, with construction starting in 2022 and production a year later.
iPhone 13 Pro will offer the A15 Bionic chip:
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But for now, it is not clear when similar chips with a 2nm production process could appear in Apple products. So far, no respected source has mentioned that the giant from Cupertino was preparing for a similar transition. However, since TSMC is the main supplier, this is a rather likely option that will be reflected in the devices themselves within a few years. If Apple were to continue with the current naming, then the first chips with the 2nm manufacturing process could be A18 (for iPhone and iPad) and M5 (for Macs).
After the publication of this report, the Apple users began to mock Intel, which simply cannot match TSMC's capabilities. Earlier this week, Intel even announced plans to manufacture chips for Qualcomm. The latest Apple chips A14 and M1, which debuted last year in the iPad Air and Mac mini, MacBook Air and 13″ MacBook Pro, are based on the 5nm production process and already offer breathtaking performance. Apple has reportedly already ordered the production of 4nm Apple Silicon chips from TSMC, which could begin production this year. At the same time, there is talk of chips with a 3nm production process for 2022. How rival Intel will react to these reports is, of course, unclear for now. In any case, it remains funny that the company still runs a campaign goPC, in which he compares Mac and PC. So it specifically points out the advantages that you don't get with apple computers. But let's pour some pure wine. Do we really need them?
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Intel is completely out. And Gelsinger (sorry if I'm spelling it wrong), I expected him to mainly adjust the culture of that company a bit so that it's not just about mocking and stuff. But it did not happen. On the contrary. Intel began to play on the fact that there are no nanometers at all and in the future deliberately named its production processes to suit their marketing. That in itself is nothing against anything. Apple does it too, for example with financial quarters, and surely there would be other cheats as well. But this is something like with T-Mobile and O2, when they deliberately say about their networks that they are HD, 4th generation, 6th generation and the like. It's purely and simply marketing to confuse people. And I don't like that. I never had to Intel. I've always used AMD processors and mostly graphics. I'm not after the biggest performance, I just want reasonable quality, reasonable performance, reasonable price. And that's what AMD has always offered. It's even better now, but of course the prizes are already elsewhere :) In any case, it will be good if Intel tries so that others don't think they've already won. But he doesn't have them at the moment.