This Could Be Apple’s First iPhone Equipped With TSMC’s 2nm Chipset

Apple is planning to launch the primary iPhone geared up with a processor constructed on a 2nm course of in 2025, in accordance with a report. The Cupertino firm will reportedly launch the iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max with a subsequent technology chipset from TSMC. The iPhone 15 Pro fashions had been the primary telephones from Apple to be geared up with a 3nm A17 Professional chip, whereas the usual iPhone fashions nonetheless run on the 4nm A16 Bionic chipset that beforehand powered the Professional fashions launched in 2022.

In keeping with a DigiTimes report (via Apple Insider) citing provide chain sources, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is getting ready a brand new chip manufactured on its 2nm course of for the iPhone 17 Professional fashions which can be anticipated to launch within the second half of 2024. Apple can also be anticipated to introduce Mac fashions with 2nm chips sooner or later, however the report doesn’t specify a timeline for these processors.

With TSMC on monitor to supply the 2nm chips that can be constructed on its “N2” course of expertise, the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are more likely to be the primary smartphones to characteristic the following technology chips, whereas the usual iPhone 17 fashions might be geared up with a earlier technology chipset, a course of Apple has adopted because the iPhone 14, which featured the identical chip because the iPhone 13 Pro.

Whereas the Taiwanese chip agency will begin manufacturing of 2nm chip designs subsequent 12 months, additionally it is engaged on a extra superior model of the “N2” course of expertise for even higher 2nm chips that can be prepared by 2026-end, in accordance with the report. This means that the primary iPhone fashions with chips constructed on the “N2P” course of expertise might be from the iPhone 19 sequence that would debut a 12 months later in 2027.

TSMC can also be engaged on its extra superior “A14” course of expertise, which is able to enable it to supply 1.4nm chipsets, in accordance with the report. Nevertheless, there’s at present no phrase on a timeline for manufacturing of chips on the superior course of expertise, which implies it might be years earlier than an iPhone mannequin is launched with a 1.4nm processor.