iPhone 17 Pro: Leak claims Apple A19 Pro chipset unlikely to be built on 2 nm process
Apple beat both Qualcomm and MediaTek to the punch in the 3 nm race, with the company's A17 Pro still the only mobile SoC on the market to be built on a 3 nm process. A report last week claimed the 2025-bound A19 Pro could make the jump up to a 2 nm node but that has now been put into doubt.
According to a new leak from a Korean source, the A19 Pro will not debut on next year's iPhone 17 Pro phones with a 2 nm manufacturing process. Supposedly, such claims are wide of the mark, with TSMC's 2 nm process unlikely to hit mass-production capabilities till the second half of 2026. That, of course, would make the idea of a 2 nm A19 Pro flat-out impossible, with the A20 Pro a likelier candidate.
If this leak is anything to go by, it's likely that the A20 Pro and MediaTek 9600 could both be built on the same 2 nm node. It's currently unknown if the Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 will be built on a TSMC or Samsung process.
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