TSMC to Start Trial Production of 2-nm Chips Next Week for AppleSilicon in 2025

TapTechNews July 9th news, according to ETNews report, the foundry of Apple chips, TSMC, will start trial production of 2-nanometer chips next week and plans to apply this technology to AppleSilicon chips next year.

The trial production will be carried out at TSMC's Baoshan plant in the northern part of Taiwan. The equipment for 2-nanometer chip production has been delivered to this plant in the second quarter of this year. Apple is expected to transfer its custom chips to the 2-nanometer manufacturing process in 2025.

According to TapTechNews, the A17Pro chip used in the iPhone 15Pro is manufactured using TSMC's 3-nanometer process. This process can package more transistors in a smaller space, thereby improving performance and efficiency. The M4 chip used in Apple's recently released iPadPro adopts the enhanced version of this 3-nanometer technology. It is expected that the shift to the 2-nanometer process will bring further improvements, and it is expected that the performance will increase by 10-15% compared to the 3-nanometer process, and the power consumption can be reduced by up to 30%.

TSMC plans to start mass production of 2-nanometer chips next year. It is reported that the company has been accelerating this process in order to ensure a stable yield rate before mass production. TSMC is still currently the only company that can manufacture 2-nanometer and 3-nanometer chips at the scale and quality required by Apple. For its 3-nanometer chips, Apple has booked all available chip manufacturing capacity of TSMC, and TSMC plans to triple the capacity of this node by the end of the year to meet the surging demand. The 2-nanometer chip is expected to be first applied to the iPhone 17 series products in 2025..