As far back as December 2020 Patently Apple posted a report titled "TSMC has announced a new "3nm Plus" chip will be mass produced and ready for Apple, its First Customer, in 2023." A Nikkei Asia report confirmed this late yesterday
Back in April Patently Apple posted a report titled " Apple Supplier TSMC confirmed that 3nm chips will be mass produced for smartphones in the second half of 2022." Yesterday two reports from Taiwan pointed to Apple s M2 Macs this fall are likely to use TSMC s latest .
President Wei Zhejia of TSMC said on the regular shareholder meeting today that the revenue of global semiconductor market (excluding memory) is expected to increase 9% this year. Among them, TSMC's revenue will increase by 29% or more in US dollars.