Apple has lowered performance targets for the A17 Bionic chip, which is expected to be in the iPhone 15 Pro due to TSMC’s 3nm manufacturing issues. This could affect not only the company’s future smartphones, but also its new Macs with the M3 chip. informs The Wccftech portal with a link to the Revegnus insider.
According to Revegnus, Apple is the sole customer of TSMC’s 3nm chips, and the Taiwanese firm continues to struggle with production. Earlier, the same source published information on the possible consequences of passing the Apple A17 Bionic benchmark in single-core and multi-core modes, where an unprecedented increase in performance was demonstrated. But now, Revegnus says that Apple will reduce the power of the new chips.
It is assumed that Apple could not achieve the desired balance between power consumption and heat dissipation in the new A17 Bionic. This could mean that Apple’s 3nm M3 chip for future Macs could receive similar restrictions. Apple is expected to sacrifice performance in favor of energy efficiency.
These assumptions are confirmed when TSMC did not mention the performance increase in the new chips during the announcement of the 3nm chip factory, only that the energy efficiency in 3nm chips at the same speed would increase by up to 35 percent. %.
TSMC is expected to start mass production of Apple A17 Bionic chips after the second half of 2023.
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