1 Apple Car Will Gain First-Party Chips Too
The Mac lineup isn’t the only Apple product that could be seeing first-party chips manufactured by TSMC.
According to Kuo, Apple may tap the chip manufacturer to build chipsets for its long-rumored and shadowy vehicle project sometime between 2023 to 2025.
Originally, the so-called Project Titan was rumored to be developing an actual physical car. But after a series of roadblocks, it’s now likely that Apple is focused on underlying developing autonomous and driverless systems. But that could change.
Apple currently has one of the largest fleets of self-driving cars on the road in California. And while details of its systems are still murky, a set of recent hires and other reports indicate that Apple is still hard at work on the vehicular project.
Kuo says that TSMC will likely manufacture chips for the Apple car platform, which he dubs Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
That’s because ADAS will support Level 4 or level 5 automation. TSMC’s 3/5nm chip processes are the only ones that can support this type of automation requirements, Kuo said.
Previously, Kuo said that Apple could debut a first-party vehicle or related underlying systems in 2023 to 2025. His report today corroborates that.