MediaTek Beats Apple to Announcing 3nm Chips
MediaTek Beats Apple to Announcing 3nm Chips MediaTek tapes out first 3nm smartphone SoC with TSMC. MediaTek this week announced that it had successfully taped out its first flagship smartphone system-on-chip using TSMC's 3nm-class fabrication process, which technically means it has beaten Apple to the first 3nm SoC. Based on the information disclosed by the SoC developer, we are dealing with an application processor set to be made on TSMC's N3E manufacturing technology, which makes it one of the industry's first chip to use this node. Our focus is generally on PC hardware and mobile SoCs are generally not under our purview. That said, there are three aspects that matter in MediaTek's announcement: the fact that this is the industry's first officially disclosed N3E SoC, the announcement of a 3nm processor ahead of Apple, and MediaTek's relationship with Intel Foundry Services. Let's start with the most obvious one. Beating Apple to 3nm Formally, MediaTek bea...