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Re:TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B tr... by nevi-me on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:31AM (#25277190)
But would Apple be content with going from 5nm to 3nm nodes so "quickly"? Given that AMD has been able to squeeze out their Zen 2 and 3 IPC without the need to change nodes completely, it could make sense for Apple to do the same.
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Re:TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B tr... by spacedcowboy on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:00AM (#25277576)
Yes. The answer to that is yes.

And Apple almost certainly have had the designs in simulation and test/initial sampling already. CPU design isn't an overnight thing.

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Re:TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B tr... by ogre_codes on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:06PM (#25278485)
Apple fundamentally has more units to spread their designs across. Also, for Apple performance per watt is king. Getting 5% better battery life for a phone is massive. For a desktop or even a laptop, it's nice, but maybe not worth paying the premium for TSMCs latest die shrink.
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Re:TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B tr... by petra on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:23PM (#25278723)
Most Apple users aren't techies.

So a macbook user can now feel he has the best computer and nobody else is even close. Nobody else is being manufactured using that magic. Maybe he'll even brag about that.

How much is that worth to Apple ?

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