ITBEAR technology information On January 17, the well-known digital blogger @ Li Ang Ang Ah brought the latest news at noon today, saying that "Apple's new generation of A16 processor has completed the design and is expected to start mass production in the second half of the year." According to past revelations, Apple's new generation of mobile phones iPhone 14 series will be expected to use A16 chips.
According to the blogger, according to the average price of mobile phone processors, the average price of TSMC's 16nm, optimized 12nm, 7nm, optimized 6nm, 5nm, and optimized 4nm process average price increased by about 8% to 10% compared with 2021, so it is speculated that the price of the 4nm process used in the new a16 processor will also rise.
It is reported that Apple is TSMC's largest customer, and the increase is definitely lower than that of other customers. Of course, Apple also accepts this price increase, and packaged TSMC's 120,000 to 150,000 pieces of 4nm process capacity, due to the expected increase in the price of a16 processor 4 nanometer process, it is bound to affect the iPhone 14 series of new mobile phones A certain price increase.
ITBEAR technology information learned that Apple's latest listing is the iPhone 13 series of mobile phones, equipped with the latest A15 processor. The processor uses TSMC's latest 5-nanometer process, integrates 15 billion transistors, has two versions of 4-core GPU and 5-core GPU, and is also equipped with 16-core NPU and newly designed display engine, which is currently recognized as the strongest smartphone chip.
![It was exposed that Apple's A16 processor was not eligible for the first batch of 3nm TSMC's production capacity was split in half by Intel[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)