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Tag: chip fabs

Apple Silicon supplier TSMC affirms commitment to Taiwan with new domestic fab

Monday, March 31, 2025 2:02 pmMonday, March 31, 2025No Comments

On Monday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s leading chipmaker and Apple Silicon supplier, announced…

Apple’s A16 Bionic chips are now made in America by TSMC

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 11:15 amWednesday, September 18, 2024No Comments

TSMC’s first Arizona chips are now in production, and Apple is the first customer in production with A16 Bionic mobile processors made using…

TSMC achieves production yields at new Arizona facility on par with Taiwan plants

Friday, September 6, 2024 12:18 pmWednesday, October 16, 2024No Comments

TSMC has achieved production yields at its Arizona facility on par with established plants in Taiwan, an early indicator that its American…

Apple’s M3 MacBook Pros and iPad Pros might be delayed to 2024

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 4:01 pmWednesday, May 3, 20232 Comments

Apple is widely expected to unveil a new 15-inch MacBook Air at WWDC 2023 next month, but it’s expected to be powered by an Apple M2…

TSMC struggles to fabricate enough 3nm Apple Silicon chips

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 10:31 am1 Comment

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is struggling to meet demand from top customer Apple for 3nm Apple Silicon chips…

Apple corners the market, orders 100% of TSMC’s 3nm chips for next-gen iPhones and Macs

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 12:04 pmWednesday, February 22, 20232 Comments

Apple has cornered the market, freezing out rivals, by ordering 100% of chips produced using TSMC’s N3 first-generation 3nm process…

Apple slated to use one third of TSMC’s advanced chips made in Arizona plant

Thursday, December 1, 2022 9:24 am1 Comment

American customers such as Apple pushed TSMC to offer advanced 4-nanometer chips when its new $12 billion plant in Arizona opens…

Major Apple supplier TSMC’s founder confirms advanced 3nm chips will be produced in its new Arizona factory

Monday, November 21, 2022 10:03 amNo Comments

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC’s founder Morris Chang on Monday confirmed that it’s planning to produce chips with advanced 3nm …

Apple’s M3, A17 chips will be first to employ TSMC’s cutting-edge 3nm tech

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 10:00 am3 Comments

Apple will be the first company to use TSMC’s N3E, an upgraded version of TSMC’s current 3-nanometer (3nm) tech in the M3 and A17 for…

TSMC: Low-end chip demand is holding up production in key supply chain segments

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 9:51 am9 Comments

TSMC warned Tuesday that an endemic shortage of chips costing anywhere from 50 cents to $10 is slowing down the semiconductor industry…

Apple supplier TSMC sales set sixth quarterly record on strong chip demand

Monday, January 10, 2022 10:56 amMonday, January 10, 20222 Comments

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest foundry, reported a sixth straight quarter of record sales, thanks to…

TSMC reports gas contamination at key chip plant supplying Apple; no ‘obvious impact’ on operations

Friday, July 30, 2021 8:46 amNo Comments

Apple’s chip supplier TSMC said on Friday that some of its production lines in southern Taiwan were hit by a contamination of gases…

Apple’s iPad likely be the first powered by 3-nm chip

Friday, July 2, 2021 9:01 am4 Comments

Apple has emerged the first adopter of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)’s next-generation 3-nanometer (3-nm) chip …

Apple supplier TSMC approves $2.8 billion for capacity expansion

Thursday, April 22, 2021 9:47 amNo Comments

TSMC’s board of directors has approved $2.89 billion in spending to increase capacity, the company said on Thursday.…

Apple supplier TSMC to invest $100 billion over 3 years to meet chip demand

Thursday, April 1, 2021 9:24 am2 Comments

Contract chipmaker and major Apple supplier TSMC said on Thursday that it plans to invest $100 billion over the next three years to increase…

Intel to spend up to $20 billion on U.S. chip plants in Arizona

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 9:17 amWednesday, March 24, 202111 Comments

Intel plans to spend as much as $20 billion to build two chip fabs in Arizona and to open up its fabs to outside customers…

Apple supplier TSMC plans to bury feckless Intel with spending blitz of up to $28 billion

Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:33 am4 Comments

TSMC will invest up to $28B, a staggering sum aimed at constructing a plant in Arizona to serve Apple and expanding its lead over Intel and…

Apple supplier TSMC’s outlook shines as industry stabilizes

Thursday, July 18, 2019 8:35 am2 Comments

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. projected current-quarter revenue ahead of estimates, as the Apple Inc. supplier…

The pros and cons of Apple A-Series MacBooks

Friday, September 29, 2017 5:00 pmFriday, September 29, 201731 Comments

Apple wants, and has the resources, to control the design of all of the important semiconductors in its products…

Apple, a semiconductor superpower in the making, looks to build their own ARM-based processors for Macs

Friday, September 29, 2017 11:00 amFriday, September 29, 201723 Comments

Apple is expanding efforts to develop proprietary semiconductors to better compete in artificial intelligence…

TSMC begins work on 10nm A11 chips for Apple’s 2017 iPhones and iPads

Friday, May 6, 2016 11:34 am3 Comments

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has recently begun to tape out the design for Apple’s A11 processor…

IBM announces world’s most powerful computer chips

Thursday, July 9, 2015 1:02 pm24 Comments

IBM said on Thursday that it had made working versions of ultradense computer chips…

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