A report by Chinese newspaper Commercial Times claims that Apple is working on the next version of its A5 chip, which will be called the A6.

Rumors surrounding the next version of the iPhone – the iPhone 5, V or 4S, whatever you like to call it – are getting hotter by the day! In the last four days alone, four separate rumors related to the next-gen iPhone have been covered here on Redmond Pie alone.

Today’s rumor comes from Chinese newspaper Commerical Times which claims that the A6 chip will manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The newspaper cites analyst Dan Heyler who is a semiconductor analyst at Merrill Lynch, a financial management and advisory company:

TSMC stands a good chance of winning orders for Apple’s A6 processors, the paper quoted Dan Heyler, a semiconductor analyst with Merrill Lynch in Taipei, as indicating. But even if TSMC grabs all Apple’s tablet chip orders for 2012, sales generated from the orders will account for only 2% of TSMC’s overall sales for the year, Heyler was quoted as saying.