Apple recently announced the iPhone 14 and 14 Prowhere we could see that the Pro models use the new Apple A16 Bionic processor, while the standard models continue to use the previous A15 Bionic. Although it seemed more like a marketing strategy than anything else, it seems that the price to pay for these chips is a more important factor than on other occasions.
2.4 times more importantspecifically, because as we can read in WCCFTech, It seems that this is the price increase that TSMC has placed on Apple regarding the manufacture of its new processors.which are currently costing them a whopping 110 dollars per unit, compared to $46 for an A15 Bionic.
Although this may seem relatively cheap as a final price, we are talking about the manufacturing price, which is reaching these levels, to which we must add the margin that Apple wants to earn with these terminals.
Likewise, it must be taken into account that, as progress is made in the process nodes that TSMC manufactures, these price increases are going to practically become the norm, so we will have to see what awaits us in the future of semiconductors, because as we have seen with the NVIDIA RTX 40 Series, prices do not show signs of going down, quite the opposite.
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Jordi Bercial
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