TSMC is now ahead of schedule for mass production of 7nm chips

guest · Jun 9, 2018

TSMC is now ahead of schedule for mass production of 7nm chips
7nm chips are much closer than you would have guessed
June 9, 2018
https://www.techspot.com/news/75006-tsmc-now-ahead-schedule-mass-production-7nm-chips.html

As demand is ever increasing for smaller fabrication processes, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is aggressively moving its schedule forward. This is an extremely rare event as foundries have struggled to overcome the challenges of producing minuscule transistors.

Nvidia has already confirmed that TSMC will be a partner for 7nm chip production. Even though the GTX 1180 is rumored to use 12nm FinFETs, we will have to wait until August to receive more information about upcoming graphics cards.

SMC's first 7nm process called N7 is now slated for mass production within the second quarter of 2018. That means N7 is essentially ready for mass production now, but could still have some minor tweaks made before the end of the month.
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guest · Feb 12, 2019

An update on TSMC's transition to 7nm EUV mass production and future plans
5nm is going to risk production, 3nm is slated for 2022
February 12, 2019
https://www.techspot.com/news/78706-update-tsmc-transition-7nm-euv-mass-production-future.html

Forward-looking: Innovation goals for advanced manufacturing processes are on track at TSMC. Following the completion of 7nm EUV, there is already a clear path forward to 5nm, then down to 3nm.

Beginning at the end of March, TSMC will be ready to begin mass production of 7nm wafers using extreme ultraviolet lithography. ASML, a producer of lithography machinery has already allocated 18 of the 30 systems it is building in 2019 for TSMC.
Once the next six weeks pass and TSMC has its 7nm EUV production running at full scale, the company's 5nm process will be moved to risk production status. EUV will remain in use for 5nm and is expected to be viable down to 3nm. By the end of 2019, TSMC will be taping out chip designs on 5nm nodes, with volume production slated for early 2020.
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guest · May 27, 2019

TSMC's 7nm+ EUV is in production, improves performance by 10%
7nm will be everywhere by the end of the year
May 26, 2019
https://www.techspot.com/news/80237-tsmc-7nm-production-improves-performance-10.html

Something to look forward to: At TSMC’s recent technology forum in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the company's CEO confirmed new details regarding N7+, TSMC’s refined 7nm node employing EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography. Most importantly, N7+ chips are already being produced and 7nm production will ramp up by 150% this year to one million total units.

Despite how young 7nm technologies are, having yet to appear in a single laptop or desktop, they are already superseded by 7nm+.
N7+ has identical yield rates to N7 and will steadily improve, while also offering a 20% increase to transistor density. There’s also a 10% performance uplift or 15% power efficiency increase.

While this is all pretty good news for the consumer, it also means that Intel’s got some challenges ahead. They’ve long touted that their 10nm process is equivalent to TSMC’s 7nm, but what about 7nm+?
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guest · Sep 18, 2019

Future AMD chip production may be under threat as TSMC triples lead times for 7nm
September 18, 2019
https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/7nm-tsmc-production-lead-times

We all knew the day would come when TSMC would reach capacity. Despite managing to stave off the threat early on for 7nm production with some heavy investment in the profitable node, growing utilisation by the tech industry has unsurprisingly led to a tight supply of chips out of the Taiwanese chip manufacturing powerhouse.

According to industry sources close to the matter speaking with DigiTimes, the booming 7nm node business has led to a lead time increase of roughly four months due to tight supply at the foundry – meaning TSMC’s partners will have to get their orders in sooner rather than later to ensure a steady supply of chips over the coming months. And that could have ramifications, whether direct or indirectly, for AMD.
TSMC’s reported elongated lead times will likely affect companies looking to shift production over to 7nm from a different node, or expand capacity.
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guest · Oct 8, 2019

TSMC enters high volume production with N7+ EUV process
7nm+ is ready for showtime
October 8, 2019
https://www.techspot.com/news/82246-tsmc-enters-high-volume-production-n7-euv-process.html

Highly anticipated: TSMC's long awaited N7+ (7nm+) process that uses extreme ultraviolet lithography on critical layers is now ramping into commercial availability, and customers should be shipping products based on N7+ soon. What's more, TSMC's clients should be taping out designs for 6nm early next year. This will be a continuation of TSMC's EUV process that will increase transistor density, expand the use of EUV across more layers, and lower manufacturing costs and complexity.

TSMC announced that it's bringing its N7+ EUV process node to the market in high volume, and it bears the distinction of being the first commercially available 7nm, EUV-based process technology.
TSMC's N7+ is derived from the original N7 process, as TSMC has kept the tools, IP and infrastructure between the nodes highly portable.
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guest · Jan 4, 2020

AMD is set to become TSMC's biggest 7nm customer in 2020
Counting 7nm hardware for next-gen consoles?
January 4, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/83400-amd-set-become-tsmc-biggest-7nm-customer-2020.html

In the second half of 2020, AMD will double their 7nm orders making them TSMC’s largest customer of 7nm chips according to some forecasts. Going into 2020, TSMC's factories (above) have the capacity to produce 110,000 WPM (wafers per month) of 7nm chips and by the end of the year, they’ll be making 140,000 WPM.
AMD will be buying about 20% of that capacity, according to Apple Daily.

But that may also mean there’s not much room to expand in the desktop CPU market, so what’s AMD going to use all that 7nm fab space for? Consoles, possibly.
The PlayStation 5 is already confirmed to be using AMD’s 7nm Zen 2 and Navi, and the Xbox Series X is expected to do the same.
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guest · Aug 21, 2020

TSMC celebrates a colossal milestone: one billion 7nm chips
August 20, 2020
https://www.pcgamer.com/tsmc-celebrates-a-colossal-milestone-one-billion-7nm-chips/

The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, commonly known as TSMC, is celebrating its one billionth 7nm chip—that's over one quintillion (a billion billion) 7nm transistors that have left the foundry's fabs in one piece.

The news comes directly from TSMC's blog, in which the company touts the ability to meet demand at scale as a pivotal factor in how it will continue to deliver technological advancements and continue advanced node development.

"Our 7nm technology ramped to high-volume production faster than any other TSMC technology before," the blog post says.
There's a good chance you are reading this on a PC that is in someway powered by a TSMC-made chip.
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The only major chipmaker in gaming not yet using TSMC is Intel. The company has been keen to stick to its own manufacturing arm, which it has successfully run since the invention of the chip itself.
So while TSMC is celebrating "one billion functional, defect-free 7nm chips", Intel is facing one defect that is causing a six-month delay to its own 7nm process. Ouch, that's got to sting.
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TSMC: Celebrating One Billion 7nm Chips: Why Scale Matters

TSMC marked an amazing milestone in the past month of July – we manufactured our one-billionth good die on our 7-nanometer (7nm) technology; in layman’s terms, that would be one billion functional, defect-free 7nm chips.
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Rasheed187 · Aug 22, 2020

mood said: ↑

TSMC celebrates a colossal milestone: one billion 7nm chips
August 20, 2020
https://www.pcgamer.com/tsmc-celebrates-a-colossal-milestone-one-billion-7nm-chips/

TSMC: Celebrating One Billion 7nm Chips: Why Scale Matters
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Well, cool and all, but I hope that this will make ASML's stock surge again.

https://www.asml.com/en

guest · Oct 14, 2020

Nvidia is reportedly partnering with TSMC for 7nm Ampere production next year
October 14, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/87098...rtnering-tsmc-7nm-ampere-production-next.html

In context: Samsung is Nvidia's current partner for the production of the latter's latest 30-series Ampere GPUs, but as consumers have seen, uncertainty surrounding the former's ability to improve yields has led to a very small product launch. So small, in fact, that retailers have struggled to hold onto any stock at all.

As a result of this production inadequacy, Guru3D reports that Nvidia is already planning to shift much of the workload to TSMC. The change is expected to take effect in 2021, and could signify the long-awaited arrival of 7nm Ampere cards.
The production capacity Nvidia has snagged over at TSMC will be "high volume," which could be good news for consumers that are having a hard time getting their hands on the Green Team's latest products.
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