A report by the EE Times (via MacRumors) says that the world’s leading foundry, TSMC, is having problems meeting the demand for 3nm chips from Apple. The latter is TSMC’s largest customer accounting for 25% of its revenue. Apple reportedly locked up all of TSMC’s 3nm production for this year and plans on debuting the 3nm A17 Bionic chipsets with the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Ultra.
The smaller the process node, the smaller the chip’s feature set including transistors. Smaller transistors mean that more can fit inside a chip and that is important because the higher a chip’s transistor count, the more powerful and energy-efficient it is.
