“Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited,” popularly abbreviated TSMC, has announced its very first 1.6 nm chip and it will arrive in 2026.
Even better battery life
A16 is the name of the product that lives up to the whole point of reducing the node size so that there is room for more transistors. The two main advantages that one benefits from such leaps are better performance and less energy use – the best of both worlds, that is, but there are years between each time the upgrade is possible.
Today’s 2 nm, called N2P, has not even launched the first products, but Apple will only get in the second half of next year. It is also expected that we will have to wait until the iPhone 18, i.e. in 2026 or 2027, before we get the opportunity to experience how much better the performance is and whether the battery life is drastically better with the 1.6 nm chips. Eight to 10 percent better performance is already expected compared to N2P, and 15 to 20 percent better energy efficiency.
Meanwhile, the iPhone 17, which will launch in 2025, is expected to use N3P chips (an improved version of the 3nm N3E used in the iPhone 16 series). The N3P chips are expected to provide a 5 percent increase in performance and a 5 to 10 percent improvement in energy efficiency.
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