TSMC gave Apple a sweetheart deal promising to cover the costs of defective 3nm chips that normally Apple would pay for.
The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will be the only phones available this year that are powered by a chipset made using the 3nm process node. And that should be a big deal because the lower the process node number, the smaller the chip’s feature set. A smaller feature set means that a chip can have more transistors and more transistors make a chip more powerful and energy efficient.Usually, the risk in producing chips is placed on the chip designer, which, in the case of the A-series SoCs, is Apple. If a die is defective, the chip designer still has to pay for it.
