TSMC accelerating its 2nm research

Posted on Monday, June 08 2020 @ 10:52 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

TechPowerUp picket up an Asian report that TSMC is accelerating its 2nm process development. The company is expected to offer 5nm volume production this year and is on track to offer 3nm trial production in the first half of 2021. TSMC is the world leader in the foundry business and is showing no signs of slowing down.

The 3 nm node is going into trial production in the first half of 2021, while the mass production is supposed to commence in 2022. As far as the 2 nm node, TSMC has recently purchased more expensive Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography machines for the 2 nm node. Due to the high costs of these EUV machines, TSMC's capital spending will not be revisited this year and it should remain in the $16 billion range. As far as a timeline for 2 nm is concerned, we don't know when will TSMC start trial production as the node is still in development phases.

"TSMC accelerates 2nm R&D"

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