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According to media reports, on August 25, TSMC, the leading wafer foundry, held an online technology forum and announced information such as advanced process technology routes.
TSMC President Wei Zhejia revealed at the forum that the 7-nanometer process chips that started mass production in April 2018 have recently reached the milestone of shipping 1 billion units. The 5-nanometer process has entered the mass production stage and is planning to expand production and enhance the version. The 5-nanometer process is expected to enter mass production next year.
In addition, TSMC is also developing more advanced N4 and N3 process technologies. Among them, N4 is the latest member of TSMC’s 5nm family. It can further improve performance, power consumption, and density to meet the needs of diverse products. In addition to reducing the mask layer to simplify the process, N4 can smoothly use the complete design ecosystem of 5nm. Upgrading from N5, the N4 process is expected to start trial production in the fourth quarter of 2021 and enter mass production in 2022.
N3 is a 3-nanometer process technology. TSMC plans to conduct trial production in 2021 and enter mass production in the second half of 2022. TSMC expects that the computing speed of the 3nm process will be 15% higher than that of the 5nm process, power consumption will be reduced by 30%, and logic density will increase by 70%. While
is laying out advanced process technology, TSMC also announced at the forum that day that it will upgrade the 12nm process and launch the N12e new process technology node, which is especially targeted at IoT devices that support artificial intelligence and other high-efficiency and high-performance edges. device.
TSMC’s second quarter 2020 financial report released in July this year showed that TSMC’s revenue for the quarter was US$10.38 billion, a year-on-year increase of 34.1% and a month-on-month increase of 0.8%.
According to process classification, 7-nanometer process shipments accounted for 36% of TSMC's wafer sales in the second quarter of 2020; 16-nanometer process shipments accounted for 18% of the full-quarter wafer sales; advanced processes (including 16-nanometer and more advanced Process) revenue accounted for 54% of the total quarterly wafer sales. In other respects, the 10-nanometer process accounts for 0% and the 28-nanometer process accounts for 14%.
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