The Apple A16 chip continues to adopt TSMC's 5nm manufacturing process
Apple is preparing to support the iPhone 14 Pro phones with the new A16 processor, and the latest reports have confirmed that the upcoming Apple processor comes with a TSMC manufacturing process with a precision of 5 nanometers.
Samsung, Qualcomm, and MediaTek have provided chips with a precision of 4 nm, and previous expectations indicated that Apple will support 4 nm manufacturing accuracy, but the latest reports confirm that Apple continues to adopt the TSMC manufacturing process with a precision of 5 nm in the next generation of chips.
Analyst “Ming-Chi Kuo” indicated that the A16 chip that supports this year’s versions of the iPhone is based on 5 nm manufacturing accuracy, and “ShrimpApplePro” confirms these details, who indicated that as an alternative to the distinctive 4 nm manufacturing process, the new chip makes use of Processing unit, graphics card, and LPDDR5 memory.
Analyst reports also confirmed that the difference between the 5 nm and 4 nm manufacturing process is a small difference, which contradicts what Qualcomm presented in the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chip, which makes good use of TSMC's 4 nm manufacturing process.
On the other hand, the A15 chip provided performance improvements by 10% over the company’s previous version A14, despite the two chips supporting the 5-nanometer manufacturing process, so it is expected that the A16 chip will also perform better with higher energy efficiency, to support iPhone 14 phones Pro and Pro max while other versions come with last year's chip.
