The company wants to diversify its production due to the problems with China
Taiwan also offers problems for China’s veto
TSMC, Apple’s chip supplier, plans to mass-produce the next generation of 3-nanometer chips at its $12 billion facility in Arizona. The company is originally Taiwanese, but due to vetoes that the island suffers from China, their companies are moving to the United States.
This is assured by Morris Chang, former director of the company the specialized 3-nanometer manufacturing facility will be in Arizona and which will take the place of the current 5-nanometer system.
“Right now, TSMC has a plan for the 3-nanometer implant, but it’s not fully finalized yet. It’s almost done, at the same site in Arizona, phase two. Five nanometers is phase one, three nanometers is phase two “Chang said.
Thus, it is very likely that these processors will start to be produced to design Apple’s M2 Pro or M3 chips, as well as the A17 mobile chip. Something that Mark Gurman already teased for Bloomberg a few months ago.
