{"id":799801,"date":"2022-12-27T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/12\/27\/apple-main-supplier-tsmc-will-start-mass-production-of-3nm-chips-soon\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:49:13","slug":"apple-main-supplier-tsmc-will-start-mass-production-of-3nm-chips-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/12\/27\/apple-main-supplier-tsmc-will-start-mass-production-of-3nm-chips-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple main supplier TSMC will start mass production of 3nm chips soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s main chip supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will reportedly start mass production of its 3-nanometer chip process for the next generations of Mac, iPhone and other Apple devices in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>TSMC will hold a &#8220;ceremony at Fab 18 at the Southern Taiwan Science Park&#8221; (STSP) on Thursday and will also reveal plans to expand 3-nanometer chip production at the fabrication plant, reports AppleInsider.<\/p>\n<p>Apple currently uses 4-nanometer chips from TSMC in its iPhone 14 Pro models, which is the A16 Bionic chip.<\/p>\n<p>TSMC had started testing the 3-nanometer process in December 2021 at its Fab 18 in southern Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>A rumour in June claimed that the iPhone maker might use the new chip process in its M2 Pro chip in certain Macs that would ship next year, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>In September, it was reported that the tech giant&#8217;s upcoming M3 chip for Macs and A17 chip for iPhone 15 Pro models would be manufactured based on TMSC&#8217;s enhanced 3nm process known as &#8220;N3E&#8221; next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s main chip supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will reportedly start mass production of its 3-nanometer chip process for the next generations of Mac, iPhone and other Apple devices in the coming days. TSMC will hold a &#8220;ceremony at Fab 18 at the Southern Taiwan Science Park&#8221; (STSP) on Thursday and will also reveal plans to expand 3-nanometer chip production at the fabrication plant, reports AppleInsider. Apple currently uses 4-nanometer chips from TSMC in its iPhone 14 Pro models, which is the A16 Bionic chip. TSMC had started testing the 3-nanometer process in December 2021 at its Fab 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}