TSMC’s official website shows that TSMC’s 2nm process has been officially put into mass production in the fourth quarter of 2025 as planned. Not surprisingly, Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek and other customers will launch 2nm chips in the second half of this year. They are A20, A20 Pro, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen6 series and Dimensity 9600, marking the official arrival of the 2nm era.
It is worth noting that although the next generation flagship chips of Apple and Qualcomm are both made of 2nm process, the process nodes used by the two chips are slightly different.
According to blogger Dingjiao Digital,Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen6 uses TSMC N2P process.Apple A20 and A20 Pro use TSMC N2 process, among which N2 is TSMC's first-generation 2nm transistor technology. Compared with N3E, N2's transistor density is about 20% higher, and it can reduce power consumption by 25%-30% under the same performance.
N2P is a derivative of N2. It further improves performance and power consumption based on N2. At the extreme frequency, the N2P process can show certain advantages.
In addition to the first N2P process, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen6 will also adopt a new "2+3+3" cluster design (Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5 is a 2+6 cluster architecture design). As usual, Xiaomi 18 series, OnePlus 16, iQOO 16, Realme GT9 Pro and other models in the second half of the year will be the first to be equipped with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen6 series chips.