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9to5Mac Intel Meteor Lake chips may be made by TSMC, as it seeks to rival Apple’s M1 chips By Ben Lovejoy Intel last week provided an update on its 14th-generation Meteor Lake processors due to launch next year, but it seems that there may have been a crucial change to the company’s plans. …
More threats to Apple’s chipmaker through attempted theft of TSMC technology Ben Lovejoy | Apr 7 2026 - 5:39 am PT | Apr 7 2026 - 5:39 am PT A new Reuters piece describes new threats to Apple’s chipmaker TSMC as a result of further reported actions by the Chinese government. …
Report: Apple considers Intel and Samsung to diversify chip manufacturing away from TSMC Marcus Mendes | May 4 2026 - 8:45 pm PT | May 4 2026 - 8:45 pm PT Bloomberg reports that Apple has been exploring early-stage talks with Intel and evaluating facilities from Samsung Electronics as it looks to d… …
… For a long time, Apple split its A-series chip production between TSMC and Samsung, and Mac CPUs were off-the-shelf Intel ones. …
… TSMC is still expected to handle orders for Apple’s most cutting-edge silicon. Many see the addition of Intel as a chip manufacturer as a way Apple is mitigating risk from over-reliance on TSMC. …
… That would certainly be a useful capability for Apple to have, but it would still leave the company entirely dependent on TSMC for its latest devices. …
… This renewed commitment to meeting demand means Apple must also ask TSMC for a hot lot of A18 Pro chips, the same processor used in the iPhone 16 Pro. The system-on-chip is made using TSMC’s N3E process, with the initial production run underway at least two years ago. …
… Apple, Bosch, and TSMC will work together to produce integrated circuits ICs for Bosch’s new sensing hardware at TSMC Washington in Camas, Washington. …
… All of the iPhone processors are manufactured by TSMC, which is experiencing surges in chip demand thanks to the recent AI boom. If you go back a few years, Apple was TSMC’s largest customer by a mile … but that isn’t so true at the moment which gives the company less leverage. …
… This will entail its chip supplier TSMC manufacturing a new run of A18 Pro chips to power the machines, which Apple will inevitably have to foot the bill for. …