Mobile Chip Expert, a well-known chip supply chain tipster, revealed that Apple’s AR/VR headset will feature an M2 chip and a Bora coprocessor chip. He stated that both chips are manufactured by TSMC and are expected to enter mass production by the end of the fourth quarter of 2022.
Last week, reports indicated that Apple’s M2 processor is nearing completion and will be manufactured using TSMC’s 4nm process. In the future, Apple’s self-developed chips will be upgraded every 18 months.
It is expected that in the second half of 2022, Apple will be the first to launch the M2 chip (codenamed Staten), and in the first half of 2023, it will launch the new M2X chip (codenamed Rhodes), with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips introduced based on different graphics cores.
In addition, the M2 Staten will still use an 8-core design, but with a higher main frequency. The number of GPU cores will increase from 7 or 8 in the M1 to 9 or 10, so compared to the M1, its CPU and graphics performance will be improved, making it more suitable for platforms that require powerful GPU performance.