Apple's (TSMC) 7-nanometer reportedly starts production

[Misanthrope]

3 hours ago, djdwosk97 said:

Apple's SoC is still quite small compared to the size of a GPU. So I would assume Apple wouldn't monopolize all 7nm production even given the large volumes that Apple needs (guess).

 

34 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

You can probably fit quite a few apple SOCs in the areas around GPUs as they are huge in comparison. I don't know if any fabs do this however. 

Are those chips 100x smaller? Because Apple's demand could be 100x bigger.

 

Not that I think that's the case just throwing some numbers around btw: It's good that they can fit lots of them on a wafer but Apple sells a lot of devices, enough to possibly make a difference.

 

But well I really don't know maybe TSMC considered this and their start of production is efficient enough to handle it.

[D13H4RD]

Curious to see the efficiency gains 

 

Not that interested in performance because it's probably going to slaughter the SD845......again (even the A11 did) 

[Nicnac]

wow seriously...

Remember when Robert Colwell (DARPA) said in 2013 that we could reach 7nm by 2020?

good stuff apple  

[captain_to_fire]

And then there's me hoping that the next MacBook Air would ditch Intel in favor of their own ARM processor which can put Windows 10S on ARM devices.

[DrMacintosh]

3 hours ago, captain_to_fire said:

And then there's me hoping that the next MacBook Air would ditch Intel in favor of their own ARM processor which can put Windows 10S on ARM devices.

If anything it would run macOS only. No Bootcamp 

[captain_to_fire]

4 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

If anything it would run macOS only. No Bootcamp 

fine by me

[Biggerboot]

Just give me better battery life and an iphone that doesn't cost an arm and leg.