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> Apple has booked nearly 90% of chip supplier TSMC's first-generation 3-nanometer process capacity this year No surprise, the N3B ("first gen") process has ba
by scrlk 3y ago
> Apple has booked nearly 90% of chip supplier TSMC's first-generation 3-nanometer process capacity this year
No surprise, the N3B ("first gen") process has bad economics and poor yields. Everyone else is waiting for N3E, which is pretty different to N3B.
See:
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/tsmcs-3nm-conundrum-does-it-even https://www.semianalysis.com/p/tsmcs-3nm-conundrum-does-it-e...
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/7048/n3e-replaces-n3-comes-in-many-flavors/ https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/7048/n3e-replaces-n3-comes-in...