Friday, November 27th 2020
TSMC Completes Its Latest 3 nm Factory, Mass Production in 2022
They say that it is hard to keep up with Moore's Law, however, for the folks over at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), that doesn't seem to represent any kind of a problem. Today, to confirm that TSMC is one of the last warriors for the life of Moore's Law, we have information that the company has completed building its manufacturing facility for the next-generation 3 nm semiconductor node. Located in Southern Taiwan Science Park near Tainan, TSMC is expecting to start high-volume manufacturing of the 3 nm node in that Fab in the second half of 2022. As always, one of the first customers expected is Apple.
Estimated to cost an amazing 19.5 billion US Dollars, the Fab is expected to have an output of 55,000 300 mm (12-inch) wafers per month. Given that the regular facilities of TSMC exceed the capacity of over 100K wafers per month, this new facility is expected to increase the capacity over time and possibly reach the 100K level. The new 3 nm node is going to use the FinFET technology and will deliver a 15% performance gain over the previous 5 nm node, with 30% decreased power use and up to 70% density increase. Of course, all of those factors will depend on a specific design.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
Estimated to cost an amazing 19.5 billion US Dollars, the Fab is expected to have an output of 55,000 300 mm (12-inch) wafers per month. Given that the regular facilities of TSMC exceed the capacity of over 100K wafers per month, this new facility is expected to increase the capacity over time and possibly reach the 100K level. The new 3 nm node is going to use the FinFET technology and will deliver a 15% performance gain over the previous 5 nm node, with 30% decreased power use and up to 70% density increase. Of course, all of those factors will depend on a specific design.
56 Comments on TSMC Completes Its Latest 3 nm Factory, Mass Production in 2022
Most is 14nm, 22nm, 32nm, etc.
www.eetimes.com/fab-emphasis-questioned-as-u-s-chip-lobby-sounds-off/#
Can we get to 1nm node?
I mean, marketing name.
7N transistor size is 22nm mind you.
Intels 14nm is 24nm.
In fact, TSMC's Arizona Fab is the only one on the leading edge (not bleeding edge; that's 3nm and smaller) in the US; Intel is the only other US foundry close enough with their 14+^14 nm, WIP 10nm, and planned 7nm nodes. GloFo's US fabs only go down to 14nm, after having given up on 7nm despite having more potential than TSMC's 7nm (mostly due to money and a lack of partner investment). The rest of the US fabs (TI, IXYS, Infineon, Medtronics, etc) are mostly for larger and older nodes, with Texas Instruments mostly dominating the US military market last I recall.
this time cash took more who get thouse 1st but also numbers of them.
amd .nvidia sure be 1st of line...i think nvidia is this time little bit wiser...
I'd be worried that the plant simply does not come to pass, since Trump is no longer in charge and I doubt Biden will pursue a competitive agenda against companies trading with China.
Apple produces large number of much smaller chips, than AMD.
Bar facts, even on expectations level, AMD seems to be much bigger a customer of TSMC than Apple is.
And no, AMD is not TSMC's biggest customer, Apple is.
That's why Apple uses 5nm SoCs now, while AMDs Ryzen 5000 and Radeon 6000 products are still 7nm
Apple gets priority.
It is the better TAA, works lovely with lines (grass, hair, eyebrows), but wipes out fine detail, adds blur.
That is why the most common image shared when hyping this good, but nowhere as good as hyped tech, is that female face, on which there is barely any texture to spot the loss of details, but there are eyebrows/eyelashes for line improvement to kick in.
Yay, magic
Only RT makes it more magical (RT is on on the... left, cool, ain't it? That blured floor, absolutely lovely!):
You sure sound like someone who can bring in numbers and beat the poor opponent to the punch.
I'll wait for them to popup.
www.nvidia.com/da-dk/geforce/news/death-stranding-nvidia-dlss-2-0/
Sliders for you
I have tried all DLSS 2.0 games on my 3080 and I know why AMD fanboys are in denial - they will have nothing like this anytime soon, sad bue true
DirectML will never bring what DLSS does, and Nvidia will support DirectML too
:laugh:
Nvidia is going to dominate so hard in Cyberpunk, you know, the biggest game release in years - Can't wait to max this game out on my 3080 at 1440p with Ray Tracing and DLSS 2.0 - AMD users can only dream
And you can see images are blurred even on those sites that are hyping it. My condolesces. Did you undervolt it yet? Oh, so kind of Jensen Huang to hide the uncomfortable pics, ain't it?
But I'll go to, let me generous, overclock3d review, hyping the hell out of it, oh, look at this, from the page 2 of the review:
Look what happens to the bush
When magic was applied: :D
Now, to be clear here:
It is expected from temporal anti-aliasing.
It does improve the lines (again, grass, eyebrows, hair) you could see it on the right of the same picture.
But the point is: it is NOWHERE close to what it is hyped to be. Not even freaking remotely.
It is just the best TAA derivative we have, not more, not less.
www.overclock3d.net/reviews/software/dlss_2_0_in_death_stranding_-_nvidia_4k_performance_trump_card/2
I have tried DLSS 2.0 myself, because I can actually afford new and relevant hardware