TSMC has secured seven major customers for its upcoming 3 nm node
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cucaulay malkin
next gen will be on new node already, this is imo why we're seeing 450w cards,nvidia and amd have moved to one arch per node strategy,maxing out the silicon capabilities with every new series.
Horus-Anhur
Usually the newest node is only for Apple.
Maybe yields for the N3 node are so good, and cost of development so high, they need to spread it around as fast as possible.
Silva
JamesSneed
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FavpJo1WQAI3EDq?format=jpg&name=large
Yields are really good. They are already surpassing 5nm.
JamesSneed
I'm not sure this is news as it is rather obvious. Its the same group that uses TSMC every major node change.
NewTRUMP Order
If you build it, they will come. https://media1.giphy.com/media/dwLk9Qb116F3y/200.gif?cid=ecf05e47kpagwjefpybfh20if2cy14kie0yjkkl92z50636b&rid=200.gif&ct=g
tunejunky
fantaskarsef
Dazz
When you see Intel sourcing to TSMC while mocking them you know chit isn't going well for Intel.
blkspade
Dazz
wavetrex
It was only rough seas until switching to EUV.
Smooth sailing now that the technology has been perfected.
It's pretty insane they were doing 7-10nm with light that was 193 nm !!!, via all kind of expensive and difficult tricks (which resulted in a lot of failures and low yields, clock reducing defects, etc.)
EUV uses 13.5 nm light, which makes direct patterning a lot simpler and the result a lot sharper
... it's just that those EUV machines are incredibly complicated and expensive and it will take a long time to pay off. They are also slower due to the method of creating that EUV light.
We'll probably see rapid shrinkages in lithography all the way into hitting the atomic limit (which is close, but not there yet).
Most likely EUV will be the last system ever used for this way of making nanoelectronics.
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What comes after is anyone's guess...