TSMC: 3nm in 2021, and 5nm has satisfactory yields
Small, smaller, smallest. Where will it stop, 3nm is already coming in 2021, that's right next year. And we know that AMD is pursuing 5nm already. Coincidentally TSMC has shared a few words about both of them.
TSMC's chief executive officer, CC Wei, mentioned its upcoming process technologies. As expected 5nm process has already gone into mass production, according to Wei. The foundry expects "a very fast and smooth ramp" of 5nm in the second half of 2020, thanks to robust chip demand for mobile and HPC device applications, Wei indicated. Wei reiterated his previous remarks that TSMC will see 5nm chip sales account for about 10% of its total wafer revenue this year. Wei added that 5nm will be a long-lived node like its 7nm, 16nm and 28nm processes.
For TSMC's N3 (namely 3nm process) technology, the foundry decided to continue using FinFET transistor structure, said company CEO CC Wei at an April 16 investors meeting. The N3 technology will be another "full node stride" from the foundry's N5 (5nm process), according to Wei.
AMD is rumored to use 5nm at TSMC for ZEN4 and RDNA3
As for TSMC's 7nm process offerings, consisting of the foundry's N7, N7+ and N6 with the latter two being EUV-based, sales generated from the process portfolio will account for more than 30% of the foundry's total wafer revenue in 2020, Wei said. Despite the corona pandemic, TSMC says it will continue to have confidence in the demand for its services for years to come.
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That's what she said.
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Intel 14nm:
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Intel 14nm:
Don't worry, it's least of intel's problems.
Losing power efficiency crown? No problem, marketing will just stop talking about it.
Losing IPC crown? No problem, marketing will refocus on GHz race.
People being outraged about security fixes affecting HT performance? No problem, let's sell CPUs for gaming without HT.
Competition selling overall 25% faster CPUs at same price points? No problem, marketing can keep consumer believing that price = performance.
Outlook of losing GHz race with next generation, being 15% behind in IPC, having 30% worse power efficiency and need to keep high margins while competition delivers much more for less?
Marketing silence... Intel is losing face unless they pull rainbow rabbit from the hat.
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Intel brought a lot of talent into their house. Mostly for GPUs, but they need a lot of work on CPUs too and their new shiny toy has not been heard of for now.
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The good news is, that Zen3 seems to be 7nm EUV (let's see how things will turn out...)
But after 3nm things will start to get very interesting, cause 3nm are (roughly) only 30 layers of atoms. - still, just woooow!

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Just when everyone thought the silicon foundries are stuck and unable to progress much further...
... EUV imprinting comes in shiny very bright white armor to save the kingdom of Silicon !
Absolutely amazing what this new tech could bring in the next few years, processing chips of all kinds that are tens or even hundreds of times faster than today's best !