Apple has cornered the market, freezing out rivals, by ordering 100% of chips produced using TSMC’s N3 first-generation 3nm process…
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Apple slated to use one third of TSMC’s advanced chips made in Arizona plant
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
IBM said on Thursday that it had made working versions of ultradense computer chips…