Semiconductors
With all the new fabs being built in Germany and Japan, as well as the expansion of production capacity in China, TSMC is planning to extend its production capacity for specialty technologies by 50% by 2027. As disclosed by the company during its European Technology Symposium this week, TSMC expects to need to not only convert existing capacity to meet demands for specialty processes, but even build new (greenfield) fab space just for this purpose. One of the big drivers for this demand, in turn, will be TSMC's next specialty node: N4e, a 4nm-class ultra-low-power production node. "In the past, we always did the review phase [for upcoming fabs], but for the first time in a long time at TSMC, we started building greenfield fab...
TSMC Readies Next-Gen HBM4 Base Dies, Built on 12nm and 5nm Nodes
Of the several major changes coming with HBM4 memory, one of the most immediate is the sheer width of the memory interface. With the fourth-generation memory standard moving from...
1 by Anton Shilov 15 hours ago
TSMC: Performance-Optimized 3nm N3P Process on Track for Mass Production This Year
As part of the second leg of TSMC's spring technology symposium series, the company offered an update on the state of its 3nm-class processes, both current and future. Building...
14 by Anton Shilov yesterday
Samsung Tapes Out Its First 3nm Smartphone SoC, Gets A Boost From Synopsys AI-Enabled Tools
This week Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced that Samsung has taped out its first mobile system-on-chip on Samsung Foundry's 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology. The announcement, coming from electronic...
8 by Anton Shilov on 5/3/2024
Samsung Foundry Update: 2nm Unveil in June, Second-Gen SF3 3nm Hits Production This Year
As part of Samsung's Q1 earnings announcement, the company has outlined some of its foundry unit's key plans for the rest of the year. The company has confirmed that...
4 by Anton Shilov on 5/1/2024
TSMC Readies 8x Reticle Super Carrier Interposer For Next-Gen Chips Twice as Large As Today's
TSMC is no stranger to building big chips. Besides the ~800mm2 reticle limit of their normal logic processes, the company already produces even larger chips by fitting multiple dies...
6 by Anton Shilov on 4/30/2024
TSMC Jumps Into Silicon Photonics, Lays Out Roadmap For 12.8 Tbps COUPE On-Package Interconnect
Optical connectivity – and especially silicon photonics – is expected to become a crucial technology to enable connectivity for next-generation datacenters, particularly those designed HPC applications. With ever-increasing bandwidth...
9 by Anton Shilov on 4/26/2024
TSMC's System-on-Wafer Platform Goes 3D: CoW-SoW Stacks Up the Chips
TSMC has been offering its System-on-Wafer integration technology, InFO-SoW, since 2020. For now, only Cerebras and Tesla have developed wafer scale processor designs using it, as while they have...
2 by Anton Shilov on 4/26/2024
TSMC Preps Cheaper 4nm N4C Process For 2025, Aiming For 8.5% Cost Reduction
While the bulk of attention on TSMC is aimed at its leading-edge nodes, such as N3E and N2, loads of chips will continue to be made using more mature...
5 by Anton Shilov on 4/25/2024
TSMC 2nm Update: N2 In 2025, N2P Loses Backside Power, and NanoFlex Brings Optimal Cells
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. provided several important updates about its upcoming process technologies at its North American Technology Symposium 2024. At a high level, TSMC's 2 nm plans remain...
0 by Anton Shilov on 4/25/2024
TSMC's 1.6nm Technology Announced for Late 2026: A16 with "Super Power Rail" Backside Power
With the arrival of spring comes showers, flowers, and in the technology industry, TSMC's annual technology symposium series. With customers spread all around the world, the Taiwanese pure play...
18 by Anton Shilov on 4/25/2024
TSMC Posts Q1'24 Results: 3nm Revenue Share Drops Steeply, but HPC Share Rises
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. this week released its financial results for Q1 2024. Due to a rebound in demand for semiconductors, the company garned $18.87 billion in revenue for...
11 by Anton Shilov on 4/19/2024
ASML Patterns First Wafer Using High-NA EUV Tool, Ships Second High-NA Scanner
This week ASML is making two very important announcements related to their progress with high numerical aperature extreme ultraviolet lithography (High-NA EUV). First up, the company's High-NA EUV prototype...
13 by Anton Shilov on 4/18/2024
Samsung To Receive $6.4 Billion Under CHIPS Act to Build $40 Billion Fab in Texas
Samsung Electronics this week was awarded up to $6.4 billion from the U.S. government under the CHIPS and Science Act to build its new fab complex in Taylor, Texas...
5 by Anton Shilov on 4/16/2024
TSMC to Receive $6.6B Under US CHIPS Act, Set to Build 2nm Fab in Arizona
TSMC has entered into a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce, securing up to $6.6 billion in direct funding and access to up to $5 billion in...
23 by Anton Shilov on 4/8/2024
Rapidus to Get $3.9 Billion in Government Aid for 2nm, Multi-Chiplet Technologies
Rapidus, a Japan-based company developing 2nm process technology and aiming to commercialize it in 2027, will receive a huge government grant for its ongoing projects. The Japanese government will...
10 by Anton Shilov on 4/2/2024
Construction of $106B SK hynix Mega Fab Site Moving Along, But At Slower Pace
When a major industry slowdown occurs, big companies tend to slowdown their mid-term and long-term capacity related investments. This is exactly what happened to SK hynix's Yongin Semiconductor Cluster...
8 by Anton Shilov on 3/23/2024
Intel to Receive $8.5B in CHIPS Act Funding & Further Loans To Build US Fabs
Intel and the United States Department of Commerce announced on Wednesday that they had inked a preliminary agreement under which Intel will receive $8.5 billion in direct funding under...
20 by Anton Shilov on 3/20/2024
NVIDIA's 'cuLitho' Computational Lithography Adopted By TSMC and Synopsys For Production Use
Last year, NVIDIA introduced its cuLitho software library, which promises to speed up photomask development by up to 40 times. Today, NVIDIA announced a partnership with TSMC and Synopsys...
21 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2024
ASML Delivers First 2nm-Generation Low-NA EUV Tool, the Twinscan NXE:3800E
Our avid readers tend to look at microelectronics made using leading edge process technologies, which in case of Intel means usage of High-NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography a couple...
2 by Anton Shilov on 3/13/2024
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