Market rumors that Apple will launch a new iPhone in the third quarter of this year, due to launch last year's iPhone equipped with A11 chip 10nm process, because many new mobile phones will use the next generation of more efficient 7nm process A12 chip. According to Taiwan Economic Daily Reports, foreign investors have been optimistic that TSMC is expected to monopolize the Apple A12 chip orders.
According to the Taiwan Economic Daily, TSMC’s latest 7nm process can increase the speed of smartphones by at least 20% and increase its performance by 40%. Plus TSMC’s already rich experience in producing Apple’s A-Series wafers, making them the most capable of producing A12 chips. One of the manufacturers, and A12 chip is also a great opportunity to produce 7nm process to enhance the function of a new generation of mobile phones.
At the same time, TSMC announced that its 7nm process will have two different architectures, one for mobile application software, and the other for 'high-performance computing applications'. According to reviews, this means that Apple will adopt the new Macbook. Self-made ARM architecture processor, since then abandoned Intel's x86 architecture products.
