In the smartphone market, the influence of iPhones can be said to be very high, each year can bring tens of millions of sales, will also be recognized by many consumers, and even the new machine has not yet arrived, the market has sent out their own forecast news.
The news about the iPhone14 series is believed that everyone has been very clear, whether it is the change of the appearance design or the improvement of the camera lens, it will bring a lot of surprises to the user, but also let the user have expectations.
However, with the gradual confirmation of the new machine, some news from other aspects has begun to come out of the market, including A series processor orders, and the current market has brought a lot of surprises.
First of all, there is news that the iPhone 14 series will be equipped with A16 processors, of which the standard version is equipped with A15, and only the Pro series is equipped with A16, which is also for product classification, just like the iPhone 13 series.
iPhone13 standard version and mini version are using a castrated version of the A15 processor, the Pro series is a full blood version, and in terms of function to open up the gap, then users can choose according to their own needs when purchasing, without having to struggle.
But when it comes to A-series processors, according to the latest news in the supply chain, Apple's production chain is still advancing according to the original plan, and the iPhone14 core chip that will be launched in the second half of the year has entered the production stage.
In detail, Apple's self-developed new generation of A16 application processor has completed the design finalization, using TSMC 4nmN4P process, has now begun a small amount of film, the second half of the year began to enter mass production in TSMC Fab 18 factory, has been packaged TSMC 12 ~ 150,000 pieces of 4nm production capacity.
It is not difficult to see that in today's mobile phone market, which is very difficult to supply, the production capacity of TSMC is indeed very critical, because it will indeed become more and more difficult for the next TSMC.
You know, in addition to Apple's A-series processors, the next Snapdragon 8 Plus processors have also been rumored to use TSMC process, plus MediaTek processors are also using TSMC processes, then its production capacity pressure is indeed not small.
In addition, the strength of the A16 processor is very strong, although it continues to maintain the design architecture of the 6-core application processor, including 2 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, it is expected to be equipped with more than 16 core neural network engines, and will be divided into 4 cores and 5 cores according to the number of drawing cores.
And last year's A15 processor, this year's improvement will naturally not be small, and Apple's mobile phone performance will surpass many Android mobile phone manufacturers every year, and this year will not be an exception, and even the running score is expected to break through the million mark.
This is also a symbol of strength and one of the key factors that will be recognized by many users every year.
However, in addition to the A16 processor, the market information said that the A17 processor has completed the formulation of the design plan, it seems that in order to speed up the pace of the market, Apple's mobile phone action speed has accelerated a lot.
It is reported that the A17 application processor with the research and development code name Of Coll has now completed the design finalization, will use TSMC 3nm process, and enter mass production after the second quarter of next year.
However, at present, the major manufacturers use the processor of the 4nm process, and it is believed that after entering the 3nm process, the overall strength will be greatly improved.
Of course, apple iPhone in addition to the accelerated pace of development, but also with some old products to say goodbye, has now added the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 2 to its list of retro and obsolete products, because these devices are more than five years away from the last wholesale sale.
And the devices on the retro product list refer to devices that Apple stopped selling five years ago and seven years ago, respectively, apple provides service and parts for these older devices for up to 7 years, but repairs are subject to parts availability.
But for older models, changes in new models tend to be more anticipated by users, which is one of the reasons for accelerated progress.
Finally, I would like to say that from the current situation, the speed of the iPhone 14 series is already in the plan of Apple's mobile phone, and it is not surprising that we should meet with everyone in September.
So the question is, do you have any thoughts on the A-series processors and the iPhone 14 series? Welcome to the discussion.