Apple's huge TSMC gamble could give it a head start over rivals

Last year we saw the first commercial use of chipsets manufactured using the 5nm process. For example, TSMC produced the first such chip found on a smartphone, the A14 Bionic. The latter replaced the 7nm A13 Bionic chipset. The process node is based on the transistor density of a chip, which is the number of transistors that fit inside a square mm. This number is supposed to double every other year in theory, an observation called Moore’s Law first made by former Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in the mid 1960s and revised in the 1970s.
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