Although Apple has been leading edge for a while, it's actually rather unusual for Apple to buy the entire production capacity of a new node. The A13, Qualcomm

Although Apple has been leading edge for a while, it's actually rather unusual for Apple to buy the entire production capacity of a new node. The A13, Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, and Mediatek Dimensity 1000L were all on DUV N7P (Hisilicon Kirin 990 5G was actually on the more advanced EUV N7+). For more information on chips and their processes: https://www.eetimes.com/apple-huawei-use-tsmc-but-their-7nm-socs-are-different/ https://www.eetimes.com/apple-huawei-use-tsmc-but-their-7nm-... Here are some benchmarks of how the A13 and 865 (and the 2020 updates) stack up: https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-a14-vs-a13-vs-snapdragon-865-performance-comparison_id128439 https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-a14-vs-a13-vs-snapdrag... From the charts, it looks like particularly for single-core and browser/JS performance, the Apple designs are very strong, and beat out the Qualcomm competition even on the same process node.