As the mobile phone market is fiercely competitive, as the industry chain manufacturers are quite competitive.Recently, TSMC Fab18 factory officially launched the first stage of the factory groundbreaking ceremony, which means that Samsung, Groudend cooperation with IBM released 5nm process , Is likely to be the first to complete mass production by TSMC.In this very fast replacement of electronic technology, who come out in the lead, who will seize the initiative.
The TSMC plant will be divided into three phases to complete the first phase of the main construction of the building, it may take about a year to complete TSMC will then begin the migration of equipment in 2019, in 2020 after the completion of the first phase of equipment migration began Mass production, another phase of the equipment migration will be completed in 2021, and ultimately increase production.
TSMC Fab18 once all the construction is completed, the production will exceed Fab12, Fab14 and Fab15 plant total, the total cleanroom area or even equivalent to 25 football field area, TSMC 5nm technology is quite confident.
This 5nm production line, just the first phase of investment reached 1700 billion NT. As for the benefits of 5nm, let's look at it. If using 5nm technology to produce Snapdragon 820 processor, the same performance under the premise of fever Will be reduced by 50% or more, the power consumption is only 30% of the original, not to reduce the space for the design to bring the space advantage can be said that each process improvement, have brought the semiconductor industry some time of prosperity.
In addition to promoting the development of the semiconductor industry, in terms of TSMC also means that the chip size and cost reduction.However, on how to create 5nm process, TSMC did not detail 5nm manufacturing how to achieve, only know that still rely on EUV lithography. In addition, TSMC has already begun to complete SRAM cell manufacturing through 5CLN5FF technology. The full-scale entry into the 5nm process is only a matter of time.
So what exactly will be the results, we will wait and see!