Apple held an event for two consecutive months in September and October, but it seems that the new product within 2021 has been exhausted.The rest is just waiting for the year -end sales, but Apple himself warns the shortage due to a semiconductor shortage, and it may be a good idea to buy Christmas gifts before that.
Is the future iPad mini a 120Hz screen?Is Apple Silicon shifted to 3nm process in 2023?Until, we will deliver rumors of the latest Apple.
Is it impossible to manufacture 3nm processes for iPhone 14 (provisional)?Rumors that TSMC is technically struggling
The SoC on iPhone 14 (provisional) is rumored to be "N4P" manufacturing.Isn't it 4nm in an improved version of the 5nm process?
The chips installed on the iPhone are 7nm in 2018 A12 Bionic and 193 in A13 in A13 in 2008, and 5nm in A14 and 2021 in 2020, "The production process is miniated once every two years."I have followed the road.
From the trend, the 2022 iPhone 14 (provisional) processor was expected to be 3nm, but it is a rumor that Taiwan TSMC, who is in charge of chip production, is struggling technically.
According to the paid news media THE INFORMATION, the TSMC is difficult to move to 3nm, so the A16 Bionic (provisional) for iPhone 14 will be stayed at 5Nm for the third consecutive year.The manufacturing process in semiconductor manufacturing is the circuit width, and the smaller the number, 7nm, 5nm, and 3nm, the higher the transistor integration, which tends to improve the processing speed and power saving performance.
Not only TSMC, but Intel is a senior who is struggling to miniaturize the process rule.The 12th generation Core, the company's new generation CPU, has stopped at 10nm, but it is trying to improve it with another approach, and the difficulty of miniaturization does not necessarily mean a stagnation of performance.
Immediately after the INFORMATION article, Taiwanese electronic component industry information magazine Digitimes reports that the iPhone 14 processor is manufactured by the "N4P".If you look at the words alone, I wonder if it's a 4nm process, but TSMC calls the "N4P" as "the third largest reinforcement of the 5nm family", and "actually 5nm processes but 4 nm -equivalent performance".It depends on the gender.
In any case, it is certain that the iPhone 14 processor has improved more than the 13th generation.By the fall of 2022, when the new iPhone will be released, I would like to hope that the global semiconductor shortage has been resolved.
The adoption of "2 stack OLED" adopted in future iPad Pro and MacBook Pro, the rumor that the screen will be super bright
The iPad Pro and the MacBook Pro tend to include Apple's latest technologies such as mini LED backlit screen as a high -end product.It is a rumor that the adoption of an organic EL screen with a "two -tack tandem structure" is being considered as an extension.
According to the Korean media THE ELEC, the panel that uses this new technology has a two -stage red, green and blue light emitting layer, and has a maximum brightness.Among the current Apple products, the iPhone 13 Pro model equipped with an organic EL screen is only a single stack (one piece).
THE ELEC reports that a two -piece organic EL panel will be adopted for future iPads (initially AIR and later transformed to Pro) from the end of September.The reason why Apple wants it is that the luminance is improved and the life of the panel is four times, so it is "suitable for the long -term iPad."
It is said that LTPO technology will be adopted for the organic EL panel of this method.This was also introduced in the iPhone 13 Pro, which could support 10Hz to 120Hz Promotion (variable refresh rate).
The current iPad Pro Promotion is 24Hz to 120Hz, and if the lower limit is reduced to 10Hz due to new technology, the power consumption may be more saved and the battery may last longer.
Is the future iPad mini equipped with a 120Hz Promotion screen?Is it jelly scroll solution?
The iPad mini (6th generation) is equipped with the same A15 Bionic as the iPhone 13 series, and adopts a side Touch ID button like the iPad Air (4th generation), saying "operation response is fast and easy to unlock".It is popular.However, on the other hand, when "jelly scrolling", that is, up and down the website and e -books, some users confirmed the waving of the screen, and became a hot topic.
Under such circumstances, it has been reported that the successor to the iPad mini has a PROMOTION display and aims to achieve a variable refresh rate of up to 120Hz.
According to a post to the Korean Forum CLIEN (the famous leaker @fronttron quoted), the provisional name "iPad Mini 6 Pro" is testing a 120Hz display provided by Samsung.The RAM capacity is 4GB and is equipped with A15 chip (the same is the same as the current model), which is a little more expensive than the sixth generation, but not so much.
The jelly scrolling phenomenon is caused by a slight gap between the left and right updates due to the structure that the LCD screen is rewritten one line at a time.And the iPad Pro also has the same design (when the main unit is placed vertically, the screen controller board is vertical), the screen is updated at 120Hz, which is visible to the human eye.Because it is not.In other words, it is expected that iPad mini will be solved if it supports 120Hz.
Nevertheless, it is unlikely that the sixth generation Pro model will appear immediately in the future, "the processor and RAM capacity are the same and only the screen is different."Even if it is released, it will be a while for a while.
When the iPhone 13 is replaced with a third party screen, the mechanism of the face ID is revealed.
As the repairer IFixit disassembled the iPhone 13 Pro, it turned out that if the display was replaced, the Face ID would not work.The detailed mechanism has been reported again.
The conclusion was that the initial speculation was that the display seems to be a serial lock on a mobile phone.
In other words, a small microcontroller is linked to the screen, and after the screen is replaced, the Face ID finally works after synchronizing the iPhone and the serial number of the screen through the Apple official software + cloud server.Apple non -official repair companies and individual users cannot access these Apple tools or servers.
However, there is a missing road, which is to transplant a soldered chip from the original screen to the replacement screen.In fact, IFixit has disclosed the tip of chips with a machine tool, but it is impossible for a repair company without a dedicated equipment to do it manually.
Last year's iPhone 12 series did not confirm such a mechanism, and it is likely that Apple has strengthened the restrictions on unofficial repairs.We want to watch the future development with the government's boost in the "right to repair" movement in the United States.
Rumors of iPhone and Mac Apple Silicon, as early as 2023 to 3nm process
The source of the gossip is The Information, which mentioned earlier that the 3nm process is not in time for the 2022 iPhone 14 processor.In other words, mass production of TSMC's 3NM technology is impossible within 2022, but it may be inconsistent because it may be introduced to the site in 2023.
According to Apple's roadmap that the magazine reports, the second -generation Apple silicon of "Improvement 5NM Process Manufacturing" will be sent out in 2022.By the way, the A14 chips for the iPhone 12 series and the A15 chips of the iPhone 13 series are both 5nm, but the latter is expected to use the improved "N5P".
In the future, a 3nm chip for Mac was started in 2023, and its chips consist of four dies.And it is stated that up to 40 CPU cores are installed on one die, and the total CPU seems to be up to 160 cores.Both the M1 Pro and M1 MAX of the new MacBook Pro have 10 CPU cores, which will be up to 16 times, but the price is likely to be far from ordinary users.
The more familiar topic is that the reasonable price MacBook Air will be released in 2022 and will be equipped with the first second -generation Apple silicon.
Regarding this chip, there were gossip that the CPU cores were 8 pieces and the same as the M1, but the GPU cores were increasing from 7 to 8 to 9 to 10, but they worked faster.There is an analysis that M1 MacBook Air is driving MacBook sales, and Apple wants to put his effort.
