Information from DigiTimes should be faced with as much suspicion as possible. That's because the vehicle is a news machine and, just as it hits some things, it misses a lot. This today, however, makes a lot of sense even for the natural evolution of things, so it's worth commenting here.
According to the vehicle, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is preparing to produce “A” series chips (mainly used in iPhones and iPads) in a process of 5 nanometers. The idea that iPhones launched in 2020 are the first to rely on new technology today, the chips are manufactured in a 7 nanometer process and should remain so in 2019.
Still according to the DigiTimes, the design infrastructure is complete, which frees Apple to begin the work of designing the chip itself in the process, noting that Apple is responsible for the entire project and that TSMC “only” manufactures the chips.
In addition to a logical density 1.8x higher than current generation chips, the 5-nanometer process is expected to make significant gains in speed and energy efficiency somewhat useful in a future where 5G technology and artificial intelligence come together. will become increasingly important.
TSMC is currently Apple's only "A" chip supplier and has been doing a great job, leaving behind heavyweight competitors like Samsung. Although it is focused on the 5nm process, it will not stop with the idea that by 2022 chips will be manufactured in a 3nm process.
Nanometer, for those who do not know, is a unit of measurement of the metric length corresponding to 0.000000001 meter (one millionth of a millimeter or one billionth of a meter).
via 9to5Mac
