TSMC roadmap: Apple could launch first sub-1nm MacBook chips as early as 2029

[Redaktion]

TSMC roadmap targeting sub-1nm chip production by 2029 is found in the latest Digitimes report. Following the 1.4nm A14 node in 2028, the company aims to utilize its Tainan facilities to push semiconductor limits, with Apple's MacBooks and iPhones expected to be the primary adopter despite potential yield and cost challenges.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/TSMC-roadmap-Apple-could-launch-first-sub-1nm-MacBook-chips-as-early-as-2029.1277131.0.html

[The actual news here is]

The news here is not that APPLE will use this node, but that engineers at TSMC and others still manage the give us a full node transistor shrink every few years (even if it's not every 18 months, and maybe not even every 2 years, but more like every 2.5-3 years now), despite and because it has become more and more challenging to make smaller and smaller transistors.
Decades ago there were like 30 chip makers, not it's like 3: TSMC, SAMSUNG and INTEL (out of which TSMC makes the most power efficient chips).