Without a doubt, one of the most important successes in the history of Apple has a name and surname: Apple silicon. A somewhat risky bet on the part of the company, which has undoubtedly materialized perfectly.
A profound change in the entire range of its computers, based on Intel architecture, for new ones with their own ARM super processors. And the users of the iPhones, on the rebound, will benefit from these changes. The Apple Silicon processors of the 2023 will be 3 nm, and already put, those of the iPhones and iPads, too. Ole!
It was very clear that Apple was very satisfied with the work that its ARM processor supplier has been doing for years, TSMC. All the results of these last years of the ARM processors of the series A, have been very satisfactory.
And Apple has not hesitated to continue counting on its supplier TSMC, to manufacture the new range of processors M series for your Apple Silicon. And it has been a great success. After the launch last year of the first Macs with the M1 processor, this year we already have on the market the new MacBook Pro with even more powerful chips based on the first, the M1 Pro and M1 Max.
The Information has just published a report explaining that Apple, satisfied with these new processors, is already putting pressure on TMSC to design and manufacture a new series that is even more powerful and efficient in consumption, if possible.
TMSC will manufacture 3nm chips.
Apple's M1 processors are 5nm.
And that leads to reducing the size of these chips. The current M Series is manufactured with an architecture of 5 nanometers. TMSC forecasts that in 2022, said M series of Apple Silicon processors will continue to be manufactured in 5 nm.
Instead, it seems that for the A16 series of the next iPhone 14 next year, the company will reduce the size of the processor to 4 nm, thus improving the power consumption of the current A15s.
Most likely, by 2023, the chipmaker will already be in a position to supply new processors based on an even smaller 3nm architecture. The firm is already working on them. There are three new processors whose code names are «Ibiza","Wolf" Y "Palma de Mallorca«.
So once TMSC has the entire industrial process in place to manufacture the new 3nm M-Series processors, it will take advantage of that investment to launch new A-Series processors for iPhones and iPads, based on that 3-nanometer architecture, which means they will be much more efficient. They will consume less, and they will heat less.