Taiwan Semiconductor's 2nm production starts in 2025, with strong growth in advanced nodes and CoWoS packaging. Read why I ...

Samsung and TSMC both use hybrid nodes at 14/16nm, though Samsung's 14nm is actually based on an unreleased 20nm die-shrink. FEOL covers wafer production, lithography, etch, and deposition.

TSMC chairman C.C. Wei called the demand for 2nm “unprecedented,” far outstripping the scramble for 3nm. The shift to GAAFET is seen as the biggest jump in transistor design since the FinFET ...

Although TSMC's N2 is the company's first process technology to adopt gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistors, the node has lower defect density than its predecessors at the same stage of ...

AMD had previously stated that it would work with both TSMC and GF at 7nm, so that isn't a surprise, but the only part we knew was being built at TSMC was a 7nm Radeon Vega machine intelligence ...

TSMC launched its 7nm process in 2018 and is now in high-volume production of 3nm chips, with 2nm coming next year. It's reported that China's own Semiconductor Manufacturing International ...

TSMC has informed its AI chip customers in mainland China via an official email that it will suspend the supply of all chips manufactured using 7nm and more advanced processes to AI/GPU customers in ...

TSMC plans to raise sub-7nm foundry quotes by 3-6% in 2024, while quotes for 16nm and above process manufacturing will remain stable, according to industry sources.

TSMC has no current plans to use FinFET transistors in actual production at 20nm, according to a company representative. The chip giant will continue to use bulk silicon with planar transistors.

According to TSMC, this broader product mix is speeding up defect learning and process maturity. The fact that defect rates for GAA are tracking alongside FinFET nodes is significant.