Smartphones and laptops are becoming more powerful every year, but those improvements take some costs, such as energy consumption and thermal production. It is not enough to simply pick up with more battery or add cooling fans inside, and some strategies to counteract these side effects involve reducing the components. Processors, for example, grow smaller and smaller to squeeze more energy efficiency and efficiency. That is practically the expectation of the upcoming Apple iPhones and Apple 2022 Mac, as it jumps from its current 5 NM chips to a 3NM 3NM process.
The numbers used to indicate the manufacturing process refer to the distance between transistors in a chip. The narrower gap, less energy, a chip needs for the same performance or even better performance as a larger processor. That is why the chip manufacturers are in a fairly slow but critical career to reduce their silicon as much as possible, and Apple could be taking the initiative next year.
According to an upcoming Digitimes report stained by MacRumors, the Apple chipmaking partner is preparing to put its 3NM process in mass production to meet Apple’s product launches for the second half of 2022. This is Base a similar report in June, but the update specifically names Apple as a beneficiary of this new technology.
This means that the iPhone 14 and the Mac at the end of 2022 of 2022 could come with Apple’s A and M processors depending on that 3NM process. The current chips of Apple A14 and Apple M1 use a process of 5 nm, which is actually at the same time or even ahead of the competition. A jump to the TSMC 3NM process is announced to provide at least one increase of 10% yield and an increase of 20% in energy efficiency.
That said, there are also reports that refute the target Apple products for these new chips. One, in particular, says that the 3NM processor will first go to a new iPad Pro model, while next year’s iPhone will come with a 4 nm process chip.
