Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
TSMC’s first Arizona chips are now in production, and Apple is ready to be the first customer with mobile processors made using the foundry’s 5nm process.
Apple’s A16 SoC, which first debuted two years ago in the iPhone 14 Pro, is currently being manufactured at Phase 1 of TSMC’s Fab 21 in Arizona in small, but significant, numbers according to Tim Culpan.
Volume will ramp up considerably when the second stage of the Phase 1 fab is completed and production is underway, putting the Arizona project on track to hit its target for production in the first-half of 2025.
These A16 chips are made with the same N4P process as TSMC uses for the A16 produced in Taiwan, I am told.
TSMC Arizona is the marquee project of the US government’s $39 billion CHIPS for America Fund under the CHIPS Act.
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