As we all know, qualcomm's Snapdragon SoC is the standard for many flagship mobile phones, and the only thing that can compete with it is the Tianji chip made by TSMC. There is news on the Internet that Xiaomi, OPPO, Bitmain and artificial intelligence processor start-up Horizon Robots are all considering establishing a close cooperation relationship with TSMC, intending to work closely with TSMC in a low-key manner to meet the needs of processes below 5nm process.
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It is reported that TSMC plans to turn 3nm process manufacturing into mass production in the second half of this year, and is carrying out 2nm research and development as planned. According to sources, TSMC signed a contract with Tsinghua Unigroup Zhanrui to produce 6nm and 12nm mobile chips, and obtained orders for ZTE's 5G base station 5nm and 7nm chips. At the same time, Cambrian also signed a contract with TSMC to produce 7nm solutions.
It is worth mentioning that Apple's M1Ultra chip abandons the traditional CoWoS-S2.5D package production, and instead uses a local Integrated InFO (LSI) integrated InFO (IntegratedFan-out) chip. The M1 series chips will use TSMC's 5nm process technology, and there is news that Apple will use TSMC's CoWoS-S packaging process in the future in order to reduce costs.