Apple has scooped up all of TSMC’s 3nm production capacity for this year. This will be the first shipments of 3nm chips made by the world’s largest foundry. To explain in simple terms what this is all about, a lower process node means smaller transistors are used. This allows more transistors to fit inside a chip and this transistor count is important. The more transistors in a chip, the more powerful and energy efficient it is.
Apple will equip this year’s iPhone 15 series with the Snapdragon X70 5G modem chip
While Apple executives reportedly had a high opinion of the quality of Qualcomm’s modem chips, it wasn’t happy with how Qualcomm sells these chips to smartphone manufacturers. First, Qualcomm demands that customers pay for a license (no license-no chips is Qualcomm’s mantra) and Qualcomm also charges for the chips themselves.
