by Antonio Delgado Ago 30 minutes ago …

If all goes according to plan, TSMC has its facilities ready to start mass production of its first SoCs and 3-nanometer chips along throughout the year 2022. In addition, as they assure in digitimes, through gizchina, the next evolution of that process, called 3nm +, will begin to arrive the following year, in 2023.

Apple would be one of the first companies to use this process for their mobile SoCs

The first customers will be Apple, whose SoCs for mobiles for that year will be manufactured following this process, some SoCs that, if they do not change the trend, should be the Apple A 15 for iPhone 12. It is expected that the processors for Macbooks, successors of the current M1, also arrive at that time in those 3nm +. Naturally, other companies will also benefit from this new node, except for surprise, AMD processors and their graphics may also make the jump to that node.

At the moment there are no details of specific numbers regarding the advantages of 3nm + compared to the first generation 3nm. The 3nm improvement over 5nm is a 15% more performance together with a 30% decrease in consumption, at the same time that the density per area rises by 70%, by which is to be expected that the 3nm + slightly improve these figures as a preliminary step to making the jump to a lower number.

If you want to know all the details and secrets about nanometers in the process of chip manufacturing don’t miss our editorial on the subject.

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Antonio Delgado

Computer Engineer by training, editor and hardware analyst at Geeknetic since 2011. I love gutting everything that comes my way, especially the latest hardware that we get here for reviews. In my spare time I fiddle with 3d printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything here you have me.