[CNMO News] As one of TSMC's largest customers, Apple has always had a good cooperative relationship with TSMC since the A8 chip, and TSMC's advanced process has also made Apple's A series chips have a better energy consumption ratio. On April 21, it was reported that the cooperation between TSMC and Apple ushered in a new development, and it successfully won the exclusive OEM order for Apple's iPhone A series processor for many years with its own advanced technology.
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According to the news, TSMC has successfully won the exclusive OEM order for Apple's iPhone A series processors for many years through the one-stop service of integrated wafer-level fan-out packaging (InFO) and advanced processes in the previous section. The iPhone 14 that Apple will launch in 2022, which is equipped with the InFOPoP packaging technology used in the A16 processor, will enter the Gen7 generation, with the main progress of strengthening the increasingly powerful application processor (AP) scattering capacity.
Since the A8 processor, Apple has distributed some orders to TSMC, and TSMC has gradually replaced Samsung, becoming the largest chip foundry for Apple's A series processors. This year, Apple's A15 chip has become the mobile chip with the strongest performance and energy consumption ratio performance in this year's flagship mobile phone with TSMC's 5nm process, which also makes Apple very satisfied with TSMC's process and process.
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For Apple, in the context of today's poor supply of the global semiconductor field, locking TSMC's production capacity in advance is conducive to ensuring its mobile phone chip supply in the next few years, which can effectively alleviate the pressure caused by insufficient chip supply. For TSMC, after obtaining the exclusive OEM order of Apple's A-series chips for many years to come, its future profit level is also guaranteed, and for the two, it can be said to be a win-win cooperation.