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Thursday 10 July 2014

WSJ: TSMC starts shipping 20nm A8 chips to Apple

TSMC (Taiwan facility 001)


It’s been long rumored that Apple for years has been working with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest independent chip foundry, on building its in-house designed processors that power the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV devices.


Thus far, several conflicting reports have indicated that TSMC has been running test production of the upcoming A8 processor for months now, with other sources insisting that the Taiwanese chip foundry was unsuccessful kickstarting mass-production over ongoing yield issues.


A report Thursday by The Wall Street Journal has it on good authority that TSMC finally began shipping its first batch of microprocessors to Apple in the second quarter…... Read the rest of this post here




"WSJ: TSMC starts shipping 20nm A8 chips to Apple" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.

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