Apple already booked TSMC’s 4nm process capacity, first product expected to be Mac chip

It is well known that Apple is the main customer of TSMC’s advanced chip process technology. The current main customer of TSMC’s 5nm process is Apple.

The enhanced 5nm process will also be used to manufacture Apple’s iPhone this fall. The 13 will be equipped with the A15 processor. In reports that most of the first wave of TSMC’s 3nm process capacity will be reserved for major customer Apple.

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However, Apple TSMC booked 4nm technology capacity, may not be used for the production of smartphone chips used, the first product is expected to be a Mac chip.

The 4nm process is a chip process that TSMC plans to mass-produce next year. In the earnings analyst conference call in the second quarter of last year, TSMC CEO Wei Zhejia said that they will launch the 4nm process, which will be compatible with the design rules of the 5nm process, which is more than the 5nm process. It has a cost-effective advantage and plans to mass-produce in 2022.

Although Wei Zhejia previously disclosed that TSMC’s 4nm process is planned to be mass-produced in 2022, an English-language media reported last month citing sources from wafer fab tool suppliers that TSMC’s process will be mass-produced in the four seasons of this year. Earlier than their planned mass production time point.