TSMC to build Apple’s in-house designed AMOLED driver chips for 10th Anniversary iPhone
TSMC is believed to have secured orders for an Apple-designed ‘A11’ system-on-a-chip expected to power so-called Tenth Anniversary iPhone and new iPads in 2017, trade publication DigiTimesreports. The chip should be fabricated on TSMC’s ten-nanometer process technology and use its backend integrated fan-out (InFO) wafer-level packaging technology. Additionally, TSMC should build Apple-designed circuitry to drive 2017 iPhone’s AMOLED panel. The iPhone’s touch and display driver circuitry is currently supplied by Renesas SP Drivers, now part of Synaptics....