Thursday, October 11th 2018
TSMC to be the Sole Supplier of Apple A13 SoCs in 2019
Even as AMD plans to dedicate 7 nm CPU and GPU manufacturing entirely to TSMC, reports are emerging that Apple could make the Taiwanese silicon fabrication giant the sole supplier of its 7 nm A13 SoC, which powers the next generation iPhone and iPad devices. Manufacturing of the A13 could commence in 2019 to keep pace with Apple's roadmaps. TSMC is currently the most strongly placed semiconductor foundry for 7 nm EUV manufacturing, after GlobalFoundries crashed out, and Samsung is trailing behind with a contract to manufacture only a portion of Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon SoCs.
Source:
DigiTimes
15 Comments on TSMC to be the Sole Supplier of Apple A13 SoCs in 2019
- GlobalFoundries hit a local snag for Fab 8.2(N3 Fab) which meant no extended funding for EUV+. (GF was also told to stop 7nm and shrink pathfinding by customers.)
- Intel 10nm/7nm/5nm requires new tools to get HVM and reduce production costs.
- Samsung is currently only doing N7 through N3 at S3.
Intel and Samsung can compete with products and TSMC doesn't.
i am not hating apple because their devices are overpriced but because they use cheap chinese and korean labor and manufacturing
Doesnt mean its gonna happen. China has been swooning over taiwan since before I was born, and yet they still dont control it. Invading it loses them a major bargaining chip, and sends their own economy into a downward spiral that they cannot afford. So you dont want 7nm then?
Also as said, you must hate everyone then!
- it avoided the big wars that plagued europe and other parts of the world, reaping the benefits at the end;
- they always have occupied rich places (like oil countries) claiming that they fight terorism and imaginary (invented by them) targets to have control over resources, not caring about the chaos they create;
- they had slaves to work for them for many, many years. Now you love those black people, but they worked their asses to gain that right;
- US economy (and most other developed countries) is practically based on China workforce in these days. Don't start to tell me that you have a lot of factories and shit, cause you have nothing compared to China;
For better or for worse, China has reached the place it stands today though hard work, lives lost, families broken apart, 16 hour working shifts and sleeping on wood beds in a 3x3m rooms with a couple more people and slim wages.
The conclusion of this post should be that if you like your Apple devices to be at 1K price level, they need to be manufactured/designed/engineered in China (that designed in California is a joke really). If you are willing to pay 2K or more dollars on a new iphone, yeah, it can be built on US soil, for sure.
My point was that Apples producs are overpriced despite they are produced in a cheap way ... and i agree with what you said. it is called capitalism and greed. thats why US are maintaining its position as the worlds strongest nation (in military). So american dudes work less and get paid the most..and thats why they joined ww2 and thats all what ww1 and ww2 was about.. it was about colonizing the world. colonizong the world so they still other peoples resources and let them be slaves for them