jason1637 said:
Not only for consoles but also smartphones. Apple is rumored to not include their new A16 chip in the non pro Iphone 14 models due to the shortages. |
They face different problems because TSMC will make Apple's chips with their new 4nm process while PC and console parts are still on their 7nm one... at least as far as I know (AMD has a handfull of products on 6nm but that's it). The yields of the newer 4nm process aren't good enough yet and that, coupled with the bigger size and complexity of the A16, means less chips available.
On the other side, their 7nm process is very mature now and yields should be very good. Add to that that Apple and others have moved to smaller processes like 4 and 5nm, and that means that there's more capacity to produce the console chips than before. Yet supply doesn't seem to have changed much, if at all.
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