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Apple chipmaker TSMC is making progress toward manufacturing 2nm and 1.4nm chips that are likely destined for future generations of Apple silicon, DigiTimes reports. The manufacturing time frames for mass production of 2nm and 1.4nm chips have now apparently been determined: Trial production of the 2nm node will begin at in the second half of 2024, with small-scale production ramping up in the second quarter of 2025. Notably, TSMC's new plant in Arizona will also join 2nm production efforts. In 2027, facilities in Taiwan will start to shift toward production of 1.4nm chips. TSMC's first 1.4nm node is officially called "A14" and will follow its "N2" 2nm chips. N2 is scheduled for mass production in late 2025, to be followed by an enhanced "N2P" node in late 2026. Historically, Apple is among the first companies to adopt new, state-of-the-art chip fabrication technologies. For example, it was the first company to utilize TSMC's 3nm node with the A17 Pro chip in the iPhone 15 Pro and ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ Max, and Apple is likely to follow suit with the chipmaker's upcoming nodes. Apple's most advanced chip designs have historically appeared in the iPhone before making their way to the iPad and Mac lineups. With all of the latest information, here's how the ‌iPhone‌'s chip technology is expected to look going forward: ‌iPhone‌ XR and XS (2018): A12 Bionic (7nm, N7) ‌iPhone‌ 11 lineup (2019): A13 Bionic (7nm, N7P) ‌iPhone‌ 12 lineup (2020): A14 Bionic (5nm, N5) iPhone 13 Pro (2021): A15 Bionic (5nm, N5P) iPhone 14 Pro (2022): A16 Bionic (4nm, N4P) ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ (2023): A17 Pro (‌3nm‌, N3B) iPhone 16 Pro (2024): "A18" (‌3nm‌, N3E) "‌iPhone‌ 17 Pro" (2025): "A19" (2nm, N2) "‌iPhone‌ 18 Pro" (2026): "A20" (2nm, N2P) "‌iPhone‌ 19 Pro" (2027): "A21" (1.4nm, A14) The M1 series of Apple silicon chips is based on the A14 Bionic and uses TSMC's N5 node, while the M2 and M3 series use N5P and N3B, respectively. The Apple Watch's S4 and S5 chips use N7, the S6, S7, and S8 chips use N7P, and the latest S9 chip uses N4P. Each successive TSMC node surpasses its predecessor in terms of transistor density, performance, and efficiency. Late last year, it emerged that TSMC had already demonstrated prototype 2nm chips to Apple ahead of their expected introduction in 2025.Tags: TSMC, DigiTimes, Apple Silicon This article, "TSMC's Next-Generation Chip Technology for Apple Silicon on Schedule" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Docker Desktop for Mac [Apple Silicon], continuing to support developers in our community with their choice of local development environments. First, we want to say a big thank you to our community. The excitement you have shown about being able to run Docker Desktop on the new M1 chip has been tremendous and hugely motivating to us. Your engagement on testing builds and reporting problems has been invaluable. As soon as Apple announced the new M1 chip, you let us know on our public roadmap that this was a high priority for you, and it quickly became by far our most upvoted roadmap item ever. You also responded very positively to our previous blog posts. After the M1 machines were publicly available, those of you on our developer preview program tested some very early builds. And then as we moved into public tech previews and release candidates, many more of you joined in with testing your enormous variety of use cases, and reporting bugs. In total we have had 45,000 downloads of the various preview builds, and 140 tickets raised on our public bug tracker, not to mention countless messages on our community Slack. We know that Docker Desktop is an essential part of the development process for so many of you. We are very grateful that we have such an active and supportive community, and that you have shared both your excitement and your feedback with us. We couldn’t have gotten here without you. Thank you! Where can you get it? Download it here! Release notes can be found here! Looking for support? Did you know that you can get Premium Customer Support for Docker Desktop with a Pro or Team subscription? With this GA release, we’re now ready to officially help support you if you’re thinking about using Docker Desktop for Mac [Apple Silicon], for Mac [Intel] or for Windows. Check out our pricing page to learn more about what’s included in a Pro or Team subscription, and if it’s right for you. Have you tried multi-platform builds? Many developers are going to experience multi-platform development for the first time with the Macs powered by the M1 chip. This is one of the key areas where Docker shines. Docker has had support for multi-platform images for a long time, meaning that you can build and run both amd64(Intel) and arm64 (Apple Silicon) images on Docker Desktop today. The new Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon is no exception; you can build and run images for both x86 and ARM architectures without having to set up a complex cross-compilation development environment. Docker Hub also makes it easy to identify and share repositories that provide multi-platform images. Using docker buildx you can also easily integrate multi-platform builds into your build pipeline. Try it today. Join Us for DockerCon LIVE 2021 Join us for DockerCon LIVE 2021 on Thursday, May 27. DockerCon LIVE is a free, one day virtual event that is a unique experience for developers and development teams who are building the next generation of modern applications. If you want to learn about how to go from code to cloud fast and how to solve your development challenges, DockerCon LIVE 2021 offers engaging live content to help you build, share and run your applications. Register today at https://dockr.ly/2PSJ7vn The post Released: Docker Desktop for Mac [Apple Silicon] appeared first on Docker Blog. View the full article

Revealed at Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ event on Nov 10th, Docker was excited to see new Macs feature Apple silicon and their M1 chip. At Docker we have been looking at the new hypervisor features and support that are required for Mac to continue to delight our millions of customers. We saw the first spotlight of these efforts at Apple WWDC in June, when Apple highlighted Docker Desktop on stage. Our goal at Docker is to provide the same great experience on the new Macs as we do today for our millions of users on Docker Desktop for Mac, and to make this transition as seamless as possible. Building the right experience for our customers means getting quite a few things right before we push a release. Although Apple has released Rosetta 2 to help move applications over to the new M1 chips, this does not get us all the way with Docker Desktop. Under the hood of Docker Desktop, we run a virtual machine, to achieve this on Apple’s new hardware we need to move onto Apple’s new hypervisor framework. We also need to do all the plumbing that provides the core experience of Docker Desktop, allowing you to docker run from your terminal as you can today. Along with this, we have technical dependencies upstream of us that need to make changes prior to making a new version of Docker Desktop GA. We rely on things like Go for the backend of Docker Desktop and Electron for the Docker Dashboard to view your Desktop content. We know these projects are hard at work getting ready for M1 chips, and we are watching them closely. We also want to make sure we get the quality of our release right, which means putting the right tooling in place for our team to support repeatable, reliable testing. To do this we need to complete work including setting up CI for M1 chips to supplement the 25 Mac Minis that we use for automated testing of Docker Desktop. Apple’s announcement means we can start to get these set up and put in place to start automating the testing of Desktop on M1 chips. Last but by no means least, we also need to review the experience in the product for docker build. We know that developers will look at doing more multi-architecture builds than before. We have support for multi-architecture builds today behind buildx, and we will need to work on how we are going to make this simpler as part of this release. We want developers to continue to work locally in Docker and have the same confidence that you can just build - share - run your content as easily as you do now regardless of the architecture. If you are excited for the new Mac hardware and want to be kept up to date on the status of Docker on M1 chips, please sign up for a Docker ID to get our newsletter for the latest updates. We are also happy to let you know that the latest version of Docker Desktop runs on Big Sur. If you have any feedback, please let us know either by our issue tracker or our public roadmap! Also a big thank you to all of you who have engaged on the public roadmap, Twitter and our issue trackers highlight how much you care about Docker for Mac. Your interest and energy is greatly appreciated! Keep providing feedback and check in with us as we work on this going forward. The post Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker appeared first on Docker Blog. View the full article