iPhone 8 might have in 7nm processor
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited and ARM holdings, a British multinational fables semiconductor designer, have joined to make an upcoming 7-nanometer processor for production in early-2017.TSMC currently manufactures the iPhone 6s, A9 chip on its 16-nanometer process, while Samsung made A9 chips on a smaller scale of 14-nanometer process.
TSMC’s 7-nanometer called also FinFET processor suggests it might be used to fabricate Apple ‘A11’ processors for the iPhone 8 in 2017. By comparison, Intel has said it will produce 10nm node processors in the second half of 2017. The two companies want their future 7-nanometer parts to push beyond mobile and into next generation networks and data centers and have foxued on low power and high performance compute system chips. TSMC will most likely use pattering lithography at 7nm rather than EUV, which was once considered as a savior for the semiconductor industry but spluttered to a halt after it had barely left the drawing board. Apple has been using ARM CPU blueprints as a basis for its fully customized CPU cores in A series chips since the A7 processor which debuted three years ago.Although Apple is its top client, Taiwan based TSMC also builds chips for the likes of Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Apple, Marvell and Broadcom.
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