With its advanced nodes enabling smartphone chipsets to achieve clock speeds of up to 5GHz, TSMC would achieve yet another significant milestone this year. TSMC’s cutting-edge technology have already tremendously benefited companies like Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Apple. Later this year, new chips will achieve peak clock rates of up to 5GHz for the first time in history, which will make it harder for Huawei to compete.
TSMC has been at the core of Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Apple’s rapid growth over the years to provide potent chips with outstanding performance and economy. The graph below, which was provided by Kurnal, illustrates how these businesses have progressively raised peak clock speeds and are currently aiming for 5.0GHz.
The coming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is expected to hit 5.0GHz, whereas Qualcomm’s most recent flagship, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, can already reach a peak speed of 4.61GHz. Following the 4.21GHz peak clock speed of the Dimensity 9500, MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 Pro is expected to accomplish a similar accomplishment. This boost enables SoCs to offer considerable benefits in both single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads.
However, the performance and efficiency provided by Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Apple are far superior to those of Huawei’s Kirin chipsets. The U.S. trade sanctions that prohibited the company from doing business with TSMC are the reason for its decline on the graph above. China’s SMIC factory, which is still decades behind TSMC, was Huawei’s only choice. Because it cannot use the most sophisticated EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) lithography machines, SMIC is still bound to the 5nm process.
The Kirin 9030 Pro, Huawei’s most recent chip, is still operating at 3.0GHz. As of right now, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Apple are still too far ahead of Huawei to even compete with them; the difference is a foundry partner.
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