TSMC has already made 1 billion 7nm chips

TSMC kicked off volume production of 7nm chips in April 2018 and now the company is proud to announce that it has manufactured a total of 1 billion functional, defect-free 7nm chips! On the company's blog, TSMC compares this to an area the size of "13 Manhattan city blocks."

TSMC marked an amazing milestone in the past month of July – we manufactured our one-billionth good die on our 7-nanometer (7nm) technology; in layman’s terms, that would be one billion functional, defect-free 7nm chips.

A remarkable achievement for a technology that entered volume production in April 2018. Since then, we have manufactured 7nm chips for well over 100 products from dozens of customers. It is enough silicon to cover more than 13 Manhattan city blocks, and with more than a billion transistors per chip, this is true Exa level, or over one quintillion 7nm transistors.

TSMC’s large-scale, efficient manufacturing means more than just producing a lot of chips quickly. It is critical to improving quality and reliability, and the learning enables technology advancement.

The 7nm technology ramped faster than any other TSMC technology before and the firm is now offering 6nm (N6) volume production. N6 offers an almost 20 percent logic density improvement versus N7 and is compatible with the design rules of TSMC's N7.