Unfortunate. 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

Unfortunate. 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.