TSMC came good news about the chip, 3 nanometer process fixed file, August officially opened mass production, this is true, to know that many chip companies around the world, the current latest technology is 5 nanometer process, TSMC can really produce chips with an accuracy of 3 nanometers?
Mainland Taiwan Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Company, referred to as TSMC, is the world's first, a company specializing in integrated circuit manufacturing. Capable of designing and customizing different chip products for various enterprises and customers, it has quickly become a world-famous industry giant in the past four decades, and has been selected as one of the forbes global top 100 digital industry companies.
Now TSMC's chips can be designed, supplied and customized for computers, communication electronics, industrial and semiconductors, and after the recent news that it began to prepare for 3nm mass production, a new product missed it this year.
Talking about the chip of the 3-nanometer process for a long time, how to understand it, now the most advanced chip technology has evolved to a 5-nanometer process, every smart phone has a chip, each small chip, there are tens of billions of copper interconnect lines, this number you read correctly, is tens of billions.
This is an unimaginable process, between the inches, the use of high-tech means to build such a sophisticated process, is a process that human beings are amazed by, but on this basis, the development of science and technology has not stopped, continue to pursue a more high-precision process.
The power consumption of chip wiring, need to consume about 30% of the entire chip power, if under vacuum conditions, and then use a variety of process integration, can make the material and structure more reasonable, improve efficiency and reduce wear and tear, to achieve the user's use of the endurance to continue for a longer time, and the speed of connection network speed and reaction is increasing.
It is precisely because chip manufacturers continue to find ways to experience from the perspective of users, improve and pursue the cost of control, will make the chip process and comprehensive high-tech level continue to jump, so that the chip process of miniature innovation, so that many chip companies are in you to catch up, and constantly pursue excellent processes, forming a chip technology field to update the rapid situation.
The 5-nanometer process is only from the 2020 Huawei products to start, when the design process is Kirin 9000, now just after 2 years, TSMC's process has been upgraded to 4 nanometer technology, but because it is improved from 5-nanometer technology, the real core has not been replaced and updated, so this is considered by the outside world to be a way of saying and publicizing, in fact, TSMC's production level is still in the 5-nanometer stage.
If this is the case, can the 3nm process really start mass production in the second half of the year? After all, chip giants around the world have not really started the 3-nanometer upgrade technology, is TSMC really ace in hand or is it really ready?
According to the news of external publicity, TSMC has made a breakthrough in the research and development of 3-nanometer chip technology, and in the second version of the nano-process process, it can be mass-produced, and will be produced in tainan and Hsinchu factories.
At that time, the monthly production plan is to complete about 10,000 to 20,000 pieces per month in the Hsinchu factory, and the production plan of the Tainan plant is to reach about 15,000 pieces per month, if added up, the production capacity is stable and the quality is qualified, and the capacity of TSMC to supply 3 nanometer chips is about 30,000 pieces per month, and the annual supply is also about 300,000 pieces.
Saying that a bunch of new products missed 3nm chips, it is because TSMC's chip mass production plan has been postponed once, just at the beginning of the year, it originally wanted to mass-produce, but there were some non-technical problems, internal adjustments and production line preparations were delayed, so that the first two quarters of this year's production arrangement technology was missed, and many new products could not wait, missed the device of 3nm chips.
Like the Apple iPhone 14, which was likely to have the hope of installing TSMC's 3-nanometer chip, it can only install TSMC's 4-nanometer process chip now. At present, many products have no choice but to continue to use TSMC's 5-nanometer process and the so-called 4-nanometer process, after all, the stable supply of products on the market is thousands of times better than new processes such as out-of-stock.
So a bunch of new products missed the 3nm chip process, it is estimated that even if the second half of the year can really be mass production completed, and then to install the new process of chips, really until next year.
Every year the supplier's sales plan was basically finalized at the beginning of the year, and the production order has been issued to the entrusted manufacturer, now even if the second half of the year as scheduled for mass production of 3-nanometer chips, Apple's mobile phone is not able to catch up, if Apple uses A17 chips on the iPhone, it should be used in the 3-nanometer process process, there will be a greater evolution in the structure, the user experience will be different, but if you want to get a new 3-nanometer chip mobile phone, it will definitely be next year.
In addition, next year's competition will also appear, such as Qualcomm's third-generation Snapdragon 8 chip, but also actively preparing for the preparation of the 3-nanometer process, including the technical aspects should not be a big problem, it is expected to be able to cooperate with various manufacturers next year.