TSMC Wei Zhejia: The development progress of the 3nm process is in line with expectations and will be mass-produced in the second half of the year

IT Home January 13 news, TSMC held an online legal person seminar in the afternoon, president Wei Zhejia said that the 3-nanometer process development progress is in line with expectations, will be mass production in the second half of this year.

Wei Zhejia pointed out that the 3-nanometer process will be mainly used in the field of high-effect computing and smart phones, and it is expected that 3-nanometer will be another large-scale generation process after 5-nanometer. Wei Zhejia said that in response to the strong demand for special processes such as image sensors and non-volatile memory, TSMC will expand its 28nm process production capacity in Chinese mainland, Japan and Taiwan.

In addition, TSMC Chief Executive Huang Renzhao mentioned that last year, TSMC's capital expenditure of $30 billion was used to support the growth needs of customers, and TSMC had accumulated $8 billion in customer advances in the fourth quarter. He also pointed out that TSMC's capital expenditure was $30 billion last year, and this year it plans to spend $40 billion to $44 billion, of which 70% to 80% contain advanced processes such as 2 nanometers, about 10% are used for reticles and advanced packaging, and the rest are mature process investments.

IT Home understands that TSMC today announced its fourth quarter 2021 results report. In the fourth quarter of 2021, TSMC's revenue was NT$438.1 billion, up 21.2% year-on-year, and net profit was NT$166.2 billion, up 16.4% year-on-year.