“Apple has recently signed a foundry partnership agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), industry sources have claimed,” Ingrid Lee and Jessie Shen report for DigiTimes. “Under the terms of the agreement, TSMC will apply its 28nm and 20nm process technologies to produce Apple’s next-generation CPUs, according to the sources.”
“TSMC has responded saying it does not comment on individual clients,” Lee and Shen report. TSMC is believed to have quietly secured Apple’s contract, and even succeeded in extending the deal to cover the manufacture for the A6’s successor, the sources said.”
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“TSMC has responded saying it does not comment on individual clients,”
Silence is golden.
Journalism at its best – NOT.
There is no mention of the A7 in the article, just in MDN’s headline.
Huh?!? Are you objecting to MDN’s naming the chip after the A6, the A7, or didn’t you see this sentence?
” even succeeded in extending the deal to cover the manufacture for the A6’s successor, the sources said.”
When is Audi going to sue Apple for using their names – A4, A6, A8?
I wonder how long before the A#’s processors begin showing up in Macs? Seems like the MB AIr would be a prime candidate for treatment in a year or 2..
… iOS starts running full-blown Mac Apps, rather than the cut-down-to-size “versions” that are “good enough for traveling time”. Not that I object to the stripped-down versions, but they just are not “complete”.
The current “A” is less than half as fast as the current Mac Air CPU. Will it get faster at a faster rate? Most likely. When will it be “fast enough”? I’d venture two years is the soonest that will happen.
Of course … Apple could build a 13″ iPad+ – an MBA look-alike – that would run iOS on a faster “A” … using the keyboard section as a stiffener.