TSMC may exclusively manufacture Apple's new M2 processor

According to Taiwanese media "Electronic Times", Apple is accelerating the development and mass production of the second-generation Apple Silicon M2 processor, which will be produced using TSMC's 3nm process technology. In addition, TSMC is expected to exclusively manufacture the new M2 processor.

According to industry sources, Apple's new M2 processor intends to attack the high-end PC and workstation application market. Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman (Mark Gurman), who has been following Apple for a long time, recently broke the news that Apple will release new products in "a few days", but will not hold a press conference, but will start selling on the official website. The reporter said that the protagonist of this official website release should be a new generation of iPad Pro, which will be upgraded to Apple's latest self-developed M2 chip this year, the core of the new machine will be upgraded to A14 processor, and the interface will be changed to Type-C.

The Business Times reports that TSMC will mass-produce the M2 Pro and M2 Max using its 3nm process. It was also previously reported that TSMC will use the second-generation 5nm architecture to replace the above plan. It is reported that the CPU core of the M2 series is an 8-core design, consisting of 4 high-speed cores and 4 high-efficiency cores, and the M2 has 2 more GPU cores than the M1.