The A18 Pro chipset will be used in all four new iPhone 16 models next year says analyst
As we’ve already mentioned, next year’s A18 Pro will be manufactured by TSMC using its second-generation 3nm process node which is called N3E and it should allow TSMC to hike its yield rate on 3nm production. The yield is the percentage of dies that make it through quality control compared to the total possible number of dies that could be made on a single silicon wafer. Usually, the company submitting the design for a chip, in this case Apple, would be responsible for the defective dies.
These days the process node is used to mark different generations of processors. As process nodes drop, transistor sizes drop allowing more transistors to fit inside a chip. And the higher a chip’s transistor count, the more powerful and/or power efficient a chip is.