Who will Manufacture Apple's Next SoC?
August 11, 2014
Just to review: The brain inside the current Apple iPhone 5s is the A7 SoC manufactured by Samsung using a 28nm process. The A6 (iPhone 5) and A5 (iPhone 4s) are based on Samsung 32nm. The rest of the Apple SoCs also used Samsung processes. I think we can all now agree that the coming Apple A8 SoC (iPhone 6) will use the TSMC 20nm process. In order to properly postulate which process the Apple A9 will use let me share with you my observations, opinions, and experience on the topic.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- Specialized Video Processing NPU IP for SR, NR, Demosaic, AI ISP, Object Detection, Semantic Segmentation
- Ultra-Low-Power Temperature/Voltage Monitor
- Multi-channel Ultra Ethernet TSS Transform Engine
- Configurable CPU tailored precisely to your needs
- Ultra high-performance low-power ADC
Related Blogs
- Where will Apple Manufacture the next iPhone Brain?
- Update: Who will manufacture the Apple A9?
- Who Will Get the Next Bite of Apple Chip Business?
- Apple Will NOT Manufacture SoCs at Intel
Latest Blogs
- Silicon Insurance: Why eFPGA is Cheaper Than a Respin
- One Bit Error is Not Like Another: Understanding Failure Mechanisms in NVM
- Introducing CoreCollective for the next era of open collaboration for the Arm software ecosystem
- Integrating eFPGA for Hybrid Signal Processing Architectures
- eUSB2V2: Trends and Innovations Shaping the Future of Embedded Connectivity