Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen grass Luo Yuzi for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, September 18 (Xinhua)-- @ Mobile Chip Talent, a digital blogger in Taiwan's supply chain, predicted Apple's iPhone 14 series chip adoption more than half a year earlier than Guo Mingyi and others last year, and now confirms that only iPhone 14 Pro / Max has a differentiation strategy for A16 chips.

This year, he said, Apple currently has 40 million A17 (N3E) processors for next year's iPhone15 series, and it can be assumed that only high-end models will switch to new processors in next year's iPhone15 series.

CTOnews.com warned that the whistleblower's accuracy is indeed very high in some aspects, for example, Huawei is the first to sell Glory, the first to say that Huawei buys Qualcomm chips, and so on, but on the whole, it should still be a shadow of rumors within the supply chain, with specific data for reference.

He had predicted that only the high-end models of the Pro series of Apple iPhone 14 would use the new generation of A16 chips, while the basic version would still be A15 chips. Apple first placed an order with TSMC for 100 million chips, of which A15 and A16 were 50 million each.

Available intelligence shows that Apple's new A17 chip will be mass-produced using TSMC's latest iterative version of 3nm N3E process, which is an improved version of N3 process, which is somewhat higher than the N4 process currently used in A16, but it may not be as large as that of previous generations.

TSMC PPT shows that N3E can reduce the power consumption of N5 nodes by 30-35% or increase the frequency by 15% and 20% with the same power consumption, and the density of part of the logic circuit is 1.6x, while other parts such as cache and analog circuits may increase by about 1.1x. However, the subsequent N2 increases by 10% to 15% compared with N3E, and the power consumption is reduced by 25% by 30%, which is relatively more interesting.

"Skip N3, it is reported that Apple's iPhone 15 Pro series will use the A17 chip built by TSMC N3E."

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