IPhone 7 A10 processors ordered, report says

In the meantime, the company will continue manufacturing last year’s A8 SoC, which is still used in new products like the iPad mini 4 and the Apple TV.

In March this year, there were reports that TSMC would supply 70% of Apple’s A9 chipset, followed by new reports clarifying that the orders were equally split between Samsung and TSMC. While the South Korean company will surely make great advances in manufacturing processes, TSMC will have to lag behind until it makes Apple happy.

While Samsung is producing a large chunk of Apple’s A9 CPUs (found in the iPhone 6S/6S+), TSMC (NYSE:TSM) will be the exclusive supplier of the iPhone 7’s A10 CPU, Taiwan’s Commercial Times reports. TSMC will reportedly offer its “in-house developed backend integrated fan-out (InFO) wafer-level packaging” for the A10 production, which will be built using the company’s 16nm FinFET process technology. Provided that the 6s and 6s Plus are not even out yet, it’s extremely early to spin the rumor roulette about the upcoming iPhone generation, as we probably have roughly a year before they will get unveiled. It would also be a bounce back into Apple’s favor for TSMC.

Now, according to a new rumor, the next-gen Apple A10 application processor will be exclusively manufactured by TSMC on a 16 nm manufacturing process, using InFO architecture. “The A10 will be featured in the iPhone 7 series slated for launch during the third and fourth quarters of 2016”.