According to new signed dataDigiTimes(a Korean media particularly well informed on the subject), Apple has already ordered the chips for its next high-end iPhones from TSMC. It is to this supplier that the firm has already entrusted the assembly of the motherboards which today power the iPhone 15 and the iPhone 15 Pro, released last September.
Of course, as these new indices have not been confirmed by the Apple firm, they must be considered with caution. ButDigiTimeshas already been consistently correct in the past when it comes to predicting the future of Cupertino. Today led by Tim Cook, the company behind the iPhone and Mac can boast of being worth nearly three trillion dollars on the Wall Street stock market.
Why this choice?
In reality, seeing Apple choose TSMC again for its mobile chips is not very surprising. Indeed, the iPhone 15 Pro are considered to be among the most efficient smartphones of their generation, according to most tests that have taken them in-depth. For our colleagues fromPresse-citron.net, who took the time to try the device for several days,l’iPhone 15 Pro Maxthus presents itself as a true “racing beast“. It must be said that in addition to its six-core graphics card and its CPU, the A17 Pro chip gives pride of place to a sixteen-core Neural Engine.
Furthermore, with TSMC, Apple continues to place its trust in one of the players in the microprocessor market that needs no introduction. And for good reason: the founder is positioned as the thirteenth largest capitalization on the planet – just behind Visa, and before Novo Nordisk. Apple, of course, takes first place in the ranking – for companies whose capital is accessible to the general public.
Competition in relation
Called N3E, the three-nanometer engraving process that TSMC is preparing again for future Apple iPhones will not only be available to the group founded by Steve Jobs. Indeed, according to our source of the day, the method would also have been selected by MediaTek,Intel, Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm for their own in-house chips.
Those of Qualcomm could notably power Xiaomi, Samsung or Oppo devices. With potential alternatives to the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, more affordable but running the Android operating system.
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