The iPhone 17: a major technological breakthrough it has borne in its A19 chip
The mobile technology industry is innovative, and the new iPhone 17 is no different from its predecessors. The iPhone 16 released recently, but there are already whispers about its successor; this includes with regard to the kind of chip it may contain.
Proactively promoting performances into sight
Instead of the first hearsay that pointed to a 2nm chip for next year, it appears that it will take us to iPhone 18. That does not however mean that the iPhone of 2025 will not get a performance upgrade in terms of the hardware. Going forward, analyst Jeff Pu informed that Huawei’s A19 & A19 Pro chips will be made using an entirely new 3nm process from TSMC.
“The iPhone 17 chip will be constructed using the N3P process which is the third generation process of the 3nm process;” Pu avers. This new A19 chip would therefore be an enhancement on the current A18 and A17 Pro chips that were developed using the manufacturing processes known as N3E and N3B respectively.
What does the N3P process offer to the table?
In the process of N3P, the A18 chip would experience a ‘reduction’ compared to the N3E process, which basically indicates a high transistor density. It is not yet evident just how much of an improvement this would be, yet, it would be another win in terms of both performance and energy efficiency.
And after 3 nm?
The smaller the chip, the greater the density and these big developments should give the greatest increases in this field. At any rate, it appears that TSMC is not only halting at 2nm technology. Sources provided early this year suggested that 1.4 nm chips could start production somewhere in 2027. But these timelines are easily changeable mainly because, it is highly anticipated that 2nm chips might experience a delay in production.
