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Seems like this missed Apple's M2 / iPhone 14 release by a few months.
by alberth 4y ago
Seems like this missed Apple's M2 / iPhone 14 release by a few months.
- bee_rider 4y agoI think the it must be more outside the window than the release dates make it seem -- Apple must, I guess, do some QA and build up a decent stockpile before the release of a new iPhone.
- bongobingo1 4y agoLuckily it will be around for the M3 and iPhone 15... and the M4 and 16... and ... The lead time would be enough, that I doubt M2 was ever going to be a 3nm chip.
- jamiek88 4y agoI read that it was. The M2 was backported to the N5 process due to pandemic delays. I can’t actually find anything other than ‘analyst states’ type links though.
- Slartie 4y agoIt's not like they have 3nm chips ready the day after production. When they "begin production", it takes months until the first actual, working chip from that production leaves the fab. And then it's not like the day after, Apple could produce iPhones or Macs with those chips. It takes months from having the first chip in hand until production churns out volumes of finished devices.
- wtallis 4y agoThis article is specifically about the high-volume manufacturing milestone, which can be over a year after the first working chips leave the fab.
- whynotminot 4y agoUnfortunate. That will be three straight iPhones on essentially the same node, which I think hasn't happened yet. Might also lead to some awkwardness for Apple in having to port a design running on an older node to a newer one, if M3 does use 3nm. By all accounts, and if the pattern holds true, the M[n] chip is generally the scaled up version of the latest A series design. So if we have a release of A15 on 5nm, and the M3 is going to be based off that design, but ported to 3nm, that's kind of an interesting situation.