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CTOnews.com, May 15, according to DigiTimes, citing industry insiders, Apple has booked nearly 90% of the first-generation 3-nanometer process capacity of chip supplier TSMC this year for future iPhone, Mac and iPad.

CTOnews.com has previously reported that Apple's upcoming iPhone 15 Pro series is expected to feature an A17 bionic processor, Apple's first iPhone chip based on TSMC's first-generation 3-nanometer process, also known as N3B. It is said that compared with the 4nm process used to make A16 bionic chips for iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max, 3nm technology can improve energy efficiency by 35 per cent and performance by 15 per cent.

Apple's M3 chips for Mac and iPad are also expected to use 3nm technology. The first M3 devices are expected to include the new 13-inch MacBook Air and 24-inch iMac, which could be unveiled later this year. The new iPad Pro models launched next year are also likely to use M3 chips, while Apple analyst Guo Mingyi believes that the 14-and 16-inch MacBook Pro models launched in 2024 will use M3 Pro and M3 Max chips.

Apple is currently testing a new chip with 12 cores of CPU, 18 cores of GPU and 36GB memory, which could be the basic M3 Pro chip for the next generation of 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models to be launched next year, according to an App Store developer log obtained by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

TSMC is also developing a more advanced 3nm process called N3E, according to DigiTimes. Apple devices will eventually switch to the N3E process, which is expected to start commercial production in the second half of 2023, but actual shipments will not increase until 2024.

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