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Tag: Apple A-series

U.S. lawmakers propose $22.8 billion to spur construction of chip factories in America

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 5:43 pmWednesday, June 10, 202022 Comments

U.S. lawmakers want to provide more than $22.8 billion in incentives for semiconductor manufacturers, aiming to spur the construction of chip factories …

TSMC on track for 3nm Apple ‘A16’ chips in 2022

Tuesday, June 9, 2020 2:13 pm8 Comments

Apple-supplier TSMC continues to move right along with its manufacturing processes. The Taiwan-based high-end chip foundry maintains that its 3nm fab…

TSMC to start fabricating 5nm Apple A14 SoCs in Q220

Thursday, January 2, 2020 2:00 pmThursday, January 2, 20207 Comments

Apple supplier TSMC has secured orders for Apple-designed A14 SOCs destined for this year’s iPhones…

How Apple’s custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 5:01 pmTuesday, December 3, 20199 Comments

After delivering just the first three generations of its custom ARM Application Processors between 2010 and 2012, Apple…

Apple supplier TSMC is making a $19 billion bet on 3nm – and that means faster iPhones are on the way

Monday, October 28, 2019 1:39 pm4 Comments

TSMC has begun construction of a 3nm fabrication facility at the Southern Taiwan Science and Technology Park…

Winners and Losers of the Apple-Qualcomm detente

Friday, April 19, 2019 2:25 pmFriday, April 19, 20199 Comments

The end to a battle between Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. removed a hangover for shareholders…

Why Intel’s smartphone strategy went off the rails yet again

Friday, April 19, 2019 8:46 am6 Comments

Intel recently scrapped its plans to sell 5G modems for smartphones, shortly after its top customer, Apple…

Why did Intel kill off their modem program?

Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:49 pm24 Comments

There is no way to sugar coat Intel’s modem story, it has been a flaming disaster from the start…

Analyst estimates Apple paid up to $6 billion to settle with Qualcomm

Thursday, April 18, 2019 1:57 pm11 Comments

Apple probably paid Qualcomm between $5 billion and $6 billion to settle the litigation…

Qualcomm detente is a bitter pill for Tim Cook; clock is ticking on Apple’s own modem

Thursday, April 18, 2019 11:37 am20 Comments

Apple Inc.’s legal surrender this week is a blow for the company’s supply chain strategy…

Qualcomm CEO on Apple settlement: We’re not going to disclose how much the deal is worth

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 3:01 pmWednesday, April 17, 20197 Comments

A day after settling a multibillion-dollar battle with Apple, Qualcomm’s CEO…

Here’s what likely happened between Apple, Qualcomm and Intel

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 12:57 pm10 Comments

On day two of what was expected to be by far the biggest patent or antitrust lawsuit ever heard…

Qualcomm settlement with Apple paves way for Huawei dispute

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 11:23 am6 Comments

Qualcomm Inc’s surprise settlement of a prolonged legal fight with Apple Inc paves…

Intel axes 5G modem plans after Apple and Qualcomm settle

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 10:01 amWednesday, April 17, 20199 Comments

Chipmaker Intel conceded on Tuesday it would not release a 5G smartphone modem…

What performance gains Apple’s A13 chip might deliver

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 9:15 amWednesday, April 17, 201910 Comments

We’re still a long way away from hearing anything official about Apple’s next system-on-a-chip…

TSMC lays groundwork for Apple to design 5nm chips

Monday, April 8, 2019 12:00 pmMonday, April 8, 20195 Comments

TSMC has announced delivery of the complete version of its 5nm design infrastructure….

Key Apple engineer who led development of A7 through A12X chip cores has left the company

Saturday, March 30, 2019 10:22 am17 Comments

One of Apple’s key semiconductor engineers has left the company, even as the iPhone giant tries…

Apple expected to deploy TSMC’s first 5nm ‘A14’ chips in 2020 iPhone

Friday, February 22, 2019 9:56 amFriday, February 22, 20197 Comments

Chipmakers are expected to showcase their new-generation chip solutions for AI and 5G applications…

Intel execs believe that Apple’s ARM-based Macs could come as soon as 2020

Thursday, February 21, 2019 3:33 pmThursday, February 21, 201916 Comments

Apple is widely expected to move its Mac line to custom ARM-based chips…

Apple moves modem chip engineering unit into in-house hardware technology group

Thursday, February 7, 2019 8:33 amThursday, February 7, 20193 Comments

Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies, took over the company’s modem design efforts…

Johny Srouji staying at Apple, not a candidate for Intel CEO

Saturday, January 26, 2019 12:13 pm2 Comments

Following a report last week that Apple’s chipmaking chief Johny Srouji…

Apple exec Johny Srouji on Intel’s short list of CEO candidates

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 3:25 pmTuesday, January 15, 20196 Comments

As Intel’s quest for a new CEO passes six months, one name that has been on the company’s list…

Apple 2019: Glimpses of next-gen MacBook Pro, MacBook Air seen in Intel roadmap

Friday, December 28, 2018 12:25 pmFriday, December 28, 201810 Comments

The MacBook Pro and MacBook Air should benefit from Intel’s chip makeover in 2019…

Performance shootout: Apple’s new 11-inch iPad Pro vs. 2017’s 10.5-inch iPad Pro

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 5:35 pmTuesday, November 13, 20182 Comments

The new 2018 iPad Pro is a marvel of engineering, with a brilliant new design and a chip so powerful…

Apple iPad Pro’s A12X chip has no real rivals; it delivers performance unseen on Android tablets

Thursday, November 1, 2018 11:10 amTuesday, December 18, 201810 Comments

Apple iPad Pro’s A12X chip is the stuff of Qualcomm and Intel’s worse nightmares…

Apple’s iPhone give TSMC an instant hit in chipmaking technology

Thursday, October 18, 2018 3:01 pmThursday, October 18, 20181 Comment

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s introduction of a new chipmaking technology…

Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple A-series Macs coming in 2020 or 2021, Apple Car in 2023-2025

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 5:55 pm22 Comments

The shift to ARM in the Mac has been predicted for some time…

Apple still holds the fate of Imagination Technologies one year on

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:01 pmTuesday, October 9, 20184 Comments

Imagination is continuing to lose staff to Apple…

MacBooks powered by Apple A-series chips are finally going to happen soon

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 12:24 pm19 Comments

When it came time to introduce the new iPhone chip last week, Apple gave an ample presentation…

Apple researching refinements to sunroofs, seating for ‘Project Titan’ vehicle

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 10:32 amTuesday, August 28, 20186 Comments

A pair of patents granted to Apple on Thursday cover two areas of the driving experience…

Apple expected to keep TSMC as its sole chip fab at least through 2020

Thursday, August 23, 2018 11:01 amThursday, August 23, 20186 Comments

Apple is likely to keep TSMC as its sole supplier of application processors for at least two years…

Apple A-series-powered Mac idea boosted as ARM claims its chips can out-perform Intel

Thursday, August 16, 2018 2:33 pm13 Comments

It’s long been rumored that Apple is working on Macs powered by custom-designed ARM CPUs…

Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to launch revolutionary Apple Car within 5-7 years

Wednesday, August 15, 2018 10:04 am8 Comments

Kuo foresees the Apple Car revolutionizing the automobile market much as the iPhone did back in 2007…

Apple said to introduce new ‘inexpensive’ Mac notebooks this year

Monday, August 13, 2018 2:02 pmMonday, August 13, 201816 Comments

Quanta’s shipments are expected to rise above 10 million units in the fourth quarter thanks to orders for Apple’s new inexpensive notebooks…

Did Apple just show its hand on future low-end, A-series-powered MacBooks?

Friday, July 13, 2018 4:04 pm8 Comments

Yesterday’s announcements about refreshing the high-end MacBook Pro models effectively gave away Apple’s plans…

Apple’s next laptops could be more iPhone than Mac

Monday, July 2, 2018 10:05 amMonday, July 2, 201815 Comments

The benefits are clear…

Apple’s Project Titan is still a go, says analyst

Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:03 pmThursday, June 28, 20189 Comments

We see no history of Apple acting as a “supplier” of core tech to other OEMs…

TSMC dominance in 7nm process enhanced with InFO package as Samsung scrambles to catch up

Monday, June 25, 2018 2:32 pmMonday, June 25, 20186 Comments

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is enjoying a sweeping dominance in the 7nm process space…

Apple supplier invests $25 billion in future A-series chips

Thursday, June 21, 2018 4:01 pmThursday, June 21, 20188 Comments

Apple supplier TSMC will reportedly invest a massive $25 billion in 5 nanometer node technology…

Apple might achieve what Microsoft’s Windows 10 never could

Monday, June 18, 2018 1:01 pmMonday, June 18, 201826 Comments

When Windows 10 was first revealed back in 2014, I was naturally interested in its new features…

Mobile CPU benchmarks show Apple two years ahead of the competition

Friday, June 1, 2018 10:27 amFriday, June 1, 201812 Comments

ARM has unveiled its latest high-end mobile CPU…

Where Apple could crush the autonomous driving race

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 3:57 pmWednesday, May 30, 20187 Comments

Last week, we reported on the autonomous-driving partnership between Apple Inc. and Volkswagen…

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