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Re:Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability by tengbretson on Sunday September 20, 2020 @01:15AM (#24532043)
I suspect Apple's chips have a much smaller overall die size, so the economics of the early 5nm defect rate might just make more sense for apple than amd.
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Re:Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability by masklinn on Sunday September 20, 2020 @02:13AM (#24532235)
Sources I find say that AMD’s chiplets are about 75mm2, while the A13 was about 100mm2.

An other commenter theorised that Apple had simply outbid AMD for the production capacity.

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