Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs

Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by wewtyflakes on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:37AM (#34898212)

Customers care about this:

> Battery life was a good few hours shorter than the M1

They do not care about this:

> ...but it was also manufactured on 7nm versus the Apple's 5nm

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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by smoldesu on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @04:01PM (#34902662)

I agree. It's worth noting that the 4800u was on store shelves 18 months before the first M1s were released, however. Apple Silicon was released into a market that had had already seen comparable APUs.

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