TSMC, an Apple supplier, will make 3nm chips in a plant in Arizona

According to the founder of the Taiwanese company, TSMC, an Apple chip supplier, has plans in place to mass produce next-generation 3-nanometer chips at its $12 billion Arizona factory.

Morris Chang said the 3-nanometer factory would be situated at the same Arizona site as the 5-nanometer plant while speaking to media on Monday in Taipei.
Chang, who departed from TSMC but still holds significant influence within the organization, told Reuters that “TSMC right now has a plan for three-nanometer, but it has not been totally finalized.” “Phase two in the same Arizona location is almost finished. Phase one is at 5 nanometers, and phase two is at 3 nanometers.”

With the M2 Pro or M3 chip, Apple is reportedly switching its proprietary silicon to the 3nm process. It is anticipated that TSMC’s improved 3nm process will be used to produce both Apple’s M3 processor for Macs and A17 chip for the iPhone 15 Pro models. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, a high-end Mac mini and revisions for the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros are both expected to employ the M2 Pro in 2019.

Future Macs and iPhones will be able to operate at quicker speeds and have longer battery lives thanks to the switch to a more modern technology. According to TSMC, 3nm technology, sometimes referred to as N3, would increase logic density by up to 70%, speed by up to 15% at the same power, and power by up to 30% at the same speed. According to the corporation, volume manufacturing is what it is aiming for in the second part of this year.