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Magyar30% more efficient, 15% faster: Apple iPhone 17 Pro to be first smartphone with 2 nm ARM chip
According to the latest information from DigiTimes, the Apple A19 Pro will be the first smartphone SoC in the world to be manufactured at TSMC with a structure width of 2 nm. If true, this is hardly a surprise, as Apple had already launched the first smartphone with a 3 nm chip on the market with the A17 Pro in the iPhone 15 Pro.
The timing also fits because, according to the current roadmap, mass production of TSMC's N2 process is expected to start in the second half of 2025. The advanced manufacturing process will later also be used for Apple M-series Mac chips. For buyers of the iPhone 17 Pro, this means a potentially massive upgrade in terms of performance and efficiency.
TSMC reports that new N2 process increases the transistor density by an impressive 15% compared to N3E, the process in which the Apple A18 Pro of the upcoming iPhone 16 Pro is to be produced. In practice, this should result in 25 to 30% lower power consumption and 10 to 15% better performance.
This could give Apple a noticeable advantage over its competitors' flagship smartphone chips if they do not yet have access to TSMC's N2 production for capacity reasons and instead have to fall back on the N3P and N3X processes planned for next year. These are improved 3 nm processes, which also promise advantages over N3E, but do not come close to the efficiency of N2.
