On February 3, news emerged indicating that Apple's upcoming M6 chip is projected to persist with TSMC's 2nm N2 manufacturing process, rather than switching to the N2P process. Apple's strategic decision is centered around prioritizing architectural enhancements and cost management. The company intends to offset any potential process - related disparities by leveraging innovative chip architecture design.

It is expected that Qualcomm and MediaTek will be the early adopters of the N2P process. Their primary motivation is to elevate CPU frequencies and thus diminish the performance gap that currently exists between their products and Apple's. Nevertheless, when comparing the N2P and N2 processes under identical power - consumption conditions, the N2P process only delivers a marginal performance improvement of approximately 5%.

Moreover, Apple has successfully secured over half of TSMC's initial production capacity for the 2nm N2 process. This significant allocation reduces the imperative for Apple to transition to the N2P process.