As we all know, the reason why Apple can dominate, in addition to its ecology, there is also a big killer, that is, A series chips, so that people who have used it can't stop
After the New Year, the news about the iPhone 14 mushroomed, it can be seen that the enthusiasm of fruit powder for new products is high, and there is still a period of time before the Spring Festival, Apple has broken out a big thing, so that fruit powder is not calm, let's take a look!
Samsung took over, TSMC fell out of favor?·
Just recently, the always loyal Apple has been abandoned, and some media said that the A16 chip equipped with the iPhone 14 series will be built by Samsung's 4nm process, integrating Qualcomm X65 5G baseband and RF IC.
As soon as the news came out, all parties were shocked. After all, in recent years, Apple's A series chips have all been manufactured by TSMC, and as the world's largest chip foundry, TSMC's strength is definitely the right king. The reason why the performance of Apple's A series chips is so powerful, TSMC can be described as the first hero, the process technology is directly pulled full, hanging Android a lot of friends!
The A15 processor on this year's new iPhone 13 is TSMC's second-generation 5nm process. No matter how hot this year's Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen1 and MediaTek Tianji 9000's 4nm shouts, its performance is still far from the A series chips!
For the chip, it can be described as a thousand miles of missing. Although Samsung is the second largest foundry in the world, it is still slightly inferior to TSMC. So why did Apple hand over such a big project to Samsung? Nature has a reason.
· There is also reuse, lack of skill·
The 5G baseband that Apple previously said it would develop itself has now completed tape-out testing. In order to ensure its quality, Apple handed over all the orders to TSMC. In the face of such a large order, TSMC is naturally lacking in skills, can no longer spend time on the A16 side, retreat to the second, you can only find Samsung.
Of course, if you find a new foundry to produce, it will inevitably be different from the chips in previous years, which may also bring some impact to Apple, but this is also impossible to avoid, after all, the number of TSMC is limited.
If this is the case, the proud A-series chips are greatly discounted, and I don't know if the fruit powder will buy it? However, Xiaobian feels that in recent years, smart phones have developed rapidly, and the gap between Android and Apple is getting smaller and smaller, although domestic products and Apple are different in performance, but some domestic products are still very resistant to fighting! What do you think about that? Welcome to actively like the message!