{"id":169247,"date":"2023-08-08T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/report-apple-buys-every-3-nm-chip-that-tsmc-can-make-for-next-gen-iphones-and-macs"},"modified":"2023-08-08T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:22:31","slug":"report-apple-buys-every-3-nm-chip-that-tsmc-can-make-for-next-gen-iphones-and-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/report-apple-buys-every-3-nm-chip-that-tsmc-can-make-for-next-gen-iphones-and-macs","title":{"rendered":"Report: Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/report-apple-buys-every-3-nm-chip-that-tsmc-can-make-for-next-gen-iphones-and-macs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been rumored for several months now that Apple will be using a new 3 nm manufacturing process from Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) for its next-generation chips, including M3 series processors for Macs and the A17 Bionic for some next-gen iPhones. But new reporting from The Information illuminates some of the favorable terms that Apple has secured to keep its costs down: Apple places huge chip orders worth billions of dollars, and in return, TSMC eats the cost of defective processor dies.<\/p>\n<p>At a very high level, chip companies use large silicon wafers to create multiple chips at once, and the wafer is then sliced into many individual processor dies. It\u2019s normal, especially early in the life of an all-new manufacturing process, for many of those dies to end up with defects\u2014either they don\u2019t work at all, or they don\u2019t perform to the specifications of the company that ordered them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been rumored for several months now that Apple will be using a new 3 nm manufacturing process from Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) for its next-generation chips, including M3 series processors for Macs and the A17 Bionic for some next-gen iPhones. But new reporting from The Information illuminates some of the favorable terms that Apple has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1499,1506,1512,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-food","category-mobile-phones","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}