Next week, Apple will release the iPhone XS and the budget 6.1-inch LCD iPhone, and they will have a key advantage over
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The A12 processor will be based on the 7nm TSMC process,and he must be super powerful. Huawei has already presented its 7nm Kirin 980 processor, but a smartphone with it (Mate 20) will be presented only in October. By this time, the iPhone XS will already be on sale.
Other chip makers are not ready yetgo to the 7nm process due to high costs. TSMC has spent billions of dollars developing a 7nm process. The manufacture of such processors will also cost millions of dollars. For example, Huawei spent $ 300 million to develop the Kirin 980 processor. Many companies simply cannot afford such technology.
Instead of developing 7nm company processorsQualcomm and MediaTek continued to refine their best-selling processors with new 12nm and 14nm options. These companies pay more attention to the sold 10nm and 12nm processors, because they see more potential in this.
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In addition to TSMC, Samsung is the only company that is developing a 7nm process. She plans to create a new generation Exynos processor for the Galaxy S10.
Due to the inaction of other companies at Applethere will be an advantage over them at least six months long. Although Huawei presents the Kirin 980 processor, its characteristics can only be compared with the A11 Bionic processor, which was released in 2017. As for the iPhone XS, its A12 processor should run 23-30% faster than before.