Apple will be to Taiwan's Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) largest customer, which will inevitably affect the performance demands of other customers. In particular, TSMC recommends placing orders ahead of time to prevent excessive loading of factory capacity in peak periods.
According to the newspaper DigiTimes, referring to the Chinese newspaper Economic Daily News, Apple is able to influence not only on the structure of production of TSMC, but also on the schedule of the development of advanced technological standards.
Taiwanese contractor has repeatedly stated its readiness to begin production of semiconductor products with topological 16 nm in the second quarter of 2015, but the timing of the start of mass production moved to the first quarter. As noted, the monthly TSMC will process 50,000 wafers to 16-nm technology to fulfill orders for processors Apple A9.
Earlier it was reported that TSMC, which manufactures semiconductor products, plans to invest quite a large amount of expansion of its own assets. More active company makes be competition with Samsung, which has already managed to lure in the first of the companies in the face of a major client Qualcomm.
In June of this year, TSMC has begun to supply chips A8, manufactured by 20-nm-process technology. These chips contain more transistors compared to the 28-nm-solutions as well as 30% of their productive and consume 25% less energy.