TSMC intends to 3 billion semiconductor investment over 20 billion US dollars

Andy Lau, co-chief executive officer of Taiwan's integrated circuit manufacturing industry, the world's largest semiconductor foundry, said on December 7 that it will invest more than the next-generation semiconductors with a circuit width of 3 nanometers (1 nanometer nanometer) 20 billion U.S. dollars, ahead of South Korea's Samsung Electronics and other competitors by investing heavily in cutting-edge fields.

TSMC's semiconductor factory

Liu Deyin disclosed the news in a speech delivered in the afternoon of the 7th in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, where 10-nanometer linewidth semiconductors, such as the new Apple iPhone, are among the most cutting-edge products, and 7-nanometer products will start volume production in 2018 and 3-nanometer products It is expected to be mass-produced in 2022. Currently, only TSMC has implemented the 3-nanometer product project and the new factory is built in Tainan.

Semiconductor is generally divided into the memory responsible for storage and logic responsible for computing semiconductors. TSMC products dominated by logic semiconductor, the current multi-faceted smartphones. The company believes that after the mass production of 7-nanometer products in 2018, in the face of artificial intelligence AI) and data center needs are expected to surge.

In the field of semiconductors, narrowing the circuit width has become the key to reduce costs and improve performance.On the one hand, the reduction of the circuit width leads to the difficulty of manufacturing, the price of manufacturing equipment is soaring.Asset (ASML) developed by Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturers " EUV lithography (EUV lithography) "devices cost more than 100 million euros each.