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Yes. It has more tape outs at this stage of development than both N5 or N3. It’s wildly popular for chip designers it seems.


I thought Apple gets exclusive access to the latest node for the first 1-2 years. Is that not the case?


No. That's not the case. Maybe for a few months only.


Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't TSMC launch N3 in 2022, and still only Apple uses this latest/smallest node.

Both AMD and NVIDIA are using N4.


Apple, Mediatek, Qualcomm, Intel




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