TSMC Will Release an Alternative Version Before 3 nm Chips

TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, is taking important steps in future chip architectures. The company is currently 5 nm architecture will start producing chips with These chips will contain many more transistors than chips currently produced in the 7 nm process. Normally, 7 nm chips have 91.2 million transistors per square mm, while 5 nm architecture chips have this number. to 171.3 million transistors comes out. 

TSMC is already starting to supply 5 nm chips to chipset manufacturers such as Apple and Huawei. For example, the iPhone 12 family, each 15 billion transistors having A14 Bionic chipsets will have. Chipset of iPhone 11 A13 BionicIt uses 7 nm architecture and It has 8.5 billion transistors. 

The company will release an additional version before 3 nm

TSMC will be able to process like 4 nm, even if it is 5 nm, by 2023 to fill the gap that will arise until the 3 nm process. “N4” explained the process. These chips will have some performance and energy improvements while remaining compatible with previous generation chips since they are 5 nm. TSMC, introduced chips with improved performance when switching from 7 nm to 5 nm.

TSMC will produce 3 nm chips

According to Moore's law, semiconductor transistor density doubles every two years. This has been the case for many years, but as architecture becomes smaller, it becomes more difficult to comply with this law. Such significant progress has been made in these technological developments that in the coming years, chips will be 3nm It is thought to be used in architecture. 

Apart from the largest semiconductor manufacturer TSMC, it is known that another giant semiconductor manufacturer Samsung is also working on 3 nm chips. What will be achieved in this architecture transistor density per square mm to 300 million is expected to arrive.