TSMC is ahead of schedule on production of 16nm wafers expected for next year's iPhone

With Samsung breathing down its back, TSMC is now planning on producing 50,000 wafers a month using its 16nm process during the first quarter of 2015. The wafers were originally scheduled to be produced in the second quarter of next year, and will be employed in the production of the Apple A9. The latter is the SoC that should be used on next year's version of the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad.



Apple is expected to eventually become TSMC's largest customer. But last month, KGI Securities analyst Michael Liu told his clients that Samsung will be taking the reigns back from TSMC in the second ...