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TSMC is ready to deliver 5nm chips, 3nm scheduled for H2 2022

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Yordan 25 August 2020

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TSMC is hosting its annual Technology Symposium and has detailed its roadmap for the next two years. Currently, the company is already manufacturing chipsets on the 5nm process technology (codenamed N5), and expectations are Apple to be its main client and consumer with the iPhone 12 series.

Speaking about the 3nm process technology (also referred as N3), the Taiwanese manufacturer revealed it will take a different path in architecture than its competitor Samsung and will begin mass production in H2 2022.

TSMC is ready to deliver 5nm chips, 3nm scheduled for H2 2022

There are several steps between the N5 and N3, the first one being N5P. It will be using the same foundry but will bring 5% speed gain and 10% power reduction, and manufacturing plans are sometime in 2021. Then there’s N4, which is a further evolution on the EUV layers and will be developed until the fourth quarter of 2021 so it can be ready for production and distribution in early 2022.

The 3nm chipsets are going to be built with FinFET transistors, unlike Samsung and its GAA structure. TSMC is planning for its N3 solution to use “innovative features” to bring a promising 10-15% increase in performance with up to 30% lower power consumption. The logic area will be scaled 1.7 times, meaning the 3nm chip should be 0.58 times the size of a 5nm one.

TSMC is ready to deliver 5nm chips, 3nm scheduled for H2 2022

However, the shrinkage does not translate directly to all structures since not all components can follow the same mathematical path while keeping the performance at its best. Due to SRAM limitations, in reality, the die will be about 26% smaller.

Speaking in consumer terms, 3nm chips are expected to power smartphones right in time for the 2022 holiday season.

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  • Anonymous
  • 7Ad
  • 29 Aug 2020

Don't they normally say _up_to_ X% efficiency gain *or* up to Y% performance improvement at similar power draws? Nobody delivers a chip that is only as fast as last year's but sips less power, they generally lean towards the performance si...

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  • .alpha
  • q2$
  • 28 Aug 2020

I wonder what's all those German engineers and professors doing in the US before, during, and after WW2. Must be tourism, nothing to do with stealing German tech

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  • Anonymous
  • UGw
  • 27 Aug 2020

4 to 5 year old flagships have 1080p, 400ppi, sub 6 inch screens todays flagships have 2K+, 500ppi+, almost 7 inch displays - - - - - if u were to fit todays processor in say a galaxy s6 or iphone 6s, the battery life WOULD be "1...

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