Apple Fills TSMC's 5 nm Chip Production Capacity

The world's largest semiconductor manufacturer TSMCis currently focused on chip production with 5 nm architecture. While the company receives orders from many chipset manufacturers with this new architecture, the largest number of orders comes from the world giant Apple. According to the DigiTimes report, TSMC's 5nm production capacity due to large-scale orders from Apple by the end of 2020 completely filled. 

The Taiwanese company, which continues to produce 7 nm architecture chips, also uses this architecture from Sony. to PS5 shipment focuses. Having gone through an extremely successful period, TSMC's 5 nm architecture chips are Apple's A14 Bionic Since it will be used in the chipset, it is having a hard time fulfilling the orders. This architecture, which can consume much less energy and reach higher powers than previous generation processors, is the target of many companies other than Apple. 

Huawei will not be able to supply chips from TSMC

It works with TSMC to produce 5 nm architecture chipsets and is the semiconductor manufacturer's 2nd largest customer. Huawei, can no longer supply chips from this company due to the bans imposed by the US administration. While this decision is thought to cause a loss in TSMC's income, Apple seems to compensate for this shortcoming. 

Along with the new iPad Air that Apple introduced this week, the A14 Bionic, a 5 nm architecture processor, also came to light. This processor, which Apple will use in its new iPhones as well as its tablets, will have significant differences compared to its competitors' chipsets. 

TSMC has many customers other than Apple. AMDWhile TSMC's 5 nm chips will be used in Ryzen 6000 processors and Zen 4 chips that will be released in 2022, NvidiaIt was announced that 's Hopper and Intel's XE GPUs will also be powered by the new architecture. It is one of the company's most powerful chipset manufacturers on the Android front. QualcommIt is known that it will also produce 5 nm chips.