The short answer is that Apple makes its own chips ... for primary chip production until the A8 processor in the iPhone. Since then, the fabrication of all Apple Processors has been by TSMC ...

The most affordable iPhone is expected to be refreshed in a matter of weeks, but it now looks like the price is going up.

Every year, Apple highlights in its iPhone keynotes how better its processors ... and A16 Bionic chips were up to 50% faster than the best processor available on an Android counterpart.

Either way, this will definitely be the fastest iPhone processor ever used and we should hopefully learn much more about it once Apple takes the wraps off the iPhone 6 on September 9th.

The processor has been updated from an A16 bionic to the A18, which Apple says makes it 30 percent faster than the iPhone 15 and 50 percent faster than the iPhone 14. It will have 17 percent more ...

According to Pu's information, all four models will utilise a 3nm processor. That was debuted on the iPhone 15 Pro Max this time out, and marks a significant upgrade in terms of power and efficiency.