Apple May Need Samsung’s Help to Manufacture Its New 5-nm M1 Chips

[Tsing]

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TSMC may be number one in the semiconductor manufacturing world, but its competitors may soon benefit from its unparalleled popularity and avalanche of orders, which continue to grow from major customers such as Apple and AMD.



Business Korea is reporting that Apple will likely hire Samsung to manufacture its new ARM-based M1 chips, which will power the next generation of Mac products. While TSMC was initially tapped for these SoCs, the company can’t meet the demand on top of the heap of mobile chips that are already on its plate.



“Apple’s M1 chip order volume accounts for about 25 percent of...

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[Grimlakin]

With how embroiled Samsung and Apple have been legally you know they will use this cross business to look for design elements between their CPU's and sue each other. Just wait.

 

[Dogsofjune]

It's like a married couple these two...

 

[Zarathustra]

Does Samsung even have a 5nm process? I thought they were still on 8nm?

How long before Apple embraces full vertical integration and uses some of those almost $200 billion in cash on hand to start building fabs?