by Jason Snell
A16 chips now being made in the U.S.A.
Independent journalist Tim Culpan reports that TSMC, Apple’s Taiwan-based chipmaking partner, is now producing A16 chips at its new fab in Arizona:
TSMC’s first Arizona chips are now in production, and Apple is ready to be the first cab off the rank with mobile processors made using the foundry’s 5nm process.
Not sure what those A16s will be used in—maybe the iPhone SE? A low-end iPad? Apple TV? But as Culpan writes, this is a milestone in the U.S. government’s attempts to increase chip production and capability in the United States.