Are they expecting sales to drop off so much that they can rely solely on TSMC??? Dang!
Mike
So 16nm to 10nm - some kind of power saving/ ability to push faster for given battery power?
The chip will reportedly go into full production in June
Now I'm hungry.Chips Ahoy !
Why would that be bad? It would create rabid demand because Apple always makes the must-have products and people need themselves some iPhone.So TMC will be the sole supplier for the iPhone 7, chip production will start off slowly in the second half of 2016 and ramp up in 2017. Perfect! Now the iPhone 7 will be in short supply for 6 months after launch creating a mass shortage.
FWIW: After 7nm Quantum Uncertainty kicks in and get ready for tricks and gimmicks until carbon based polymers arrive to breach the barrier. You won't see improvements at 10nm to warrant people to be bragging versus 14nm FinFET.
Unless the Semiconductor industry has been hiding this news for years, this 10nm hype won't materialize for several more years.
TSMC is fixing their 16nm which is actually 20nm planar with FinFET strapped on presently. You think this goes live in June then people are truly dead where it matters most: between their ears.
Will Samsung be left with a ton of unused production capacity now that they will be producing chips for Apple this year? Maybe that's why they are trying so hard to court Qualcomm; they already saw the writing on the wall.
I thought Apple didn't like to put all their eggs in one basket.
No, they don't.Doesn't Apple partially or wholly own TSMC? This is just smart of Apple, because Apple had wanted to ditch Samsung for several years now, but couldn't because TSMC's manufacturing wasn't up to snuff when Apple first invested/purchased TSMC. Now that they are, this makes sense.
Sure they do, they were using Samsung exclusively for years.
According to the latest rumors, iPhone 7 will pretty much be a thinner iPhone 6 with bands removed and flush camera"Mockup of iPhone 7 case showing flush rear camera and no antenna bands across rear"
How is this a "mockup" of the 7 when it appears to simply be a 6/6S with some of the bands removed and the camera flush?
You must be new here. We don't care if the products work the way Apple intends them to, we care about Apple not using Samsung, Google or Microsoft. Even more importantly, we don't care about ourselves as consumers. All we care about is how much money Apple makes so we can brag about it on various Internet forums.
So there is so much wrong In this sentence. . I don't even know where to start...
Can you imagine how many chips they will be making? like 10m just for the launch week.
10 million cutting edge technology chips, can you even comprehend that number?
and kudos to Taiwan for competing against the American and Japanese manufacturing giants(and Korean).
First, if this news is true than very impressive for the TSMC able to transition 2 nodes in one year including able to perfect 10nm node design. which at minimum takes 2 years. If A10 is fabricated on TSMC's 10nm FinFET node than A10 will be so much efficient and powerful. Who knows if Apple might have up the chip with Quad processors, more graphics co-processors and integrated more chips like LTE,Wifi on the same module. Can't wait to see.
Oh, some on here will find something to complain about.
This is Apple admitting the Samsung chip in the iPhone6s is inferior. Apple better offer free replacements to those lost in the Apple lottery and that want a TSMC chip in their iPhone 6s.
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