TSMC's production of 5nm in 2020: the last carnival before the advent of quantum computers

With the development of smart phones, semiconductor foundries such as TSMC and Samsung are gaining prominence, and the pace of semiconductor process update at 20nm in 2016, 14/16 nm in 2016 and 10nm in 2017 far exceeds the imagination. In 2018, TSMC 7nm wafers have been streamed by the camera, and the 5nm factory is under construction in January 2018.

Although the 7nm process has not been delayed yet, the more advanced 5nm process will have to wait for mass production until 2020. TSMC's Fab 18 plant, which produces 5nm wafers, is located in Tainan with a total cost of about US $ 17 billion and a planned annual production of 1 million 300mm Wafer.

For many semiconductor industries, 7nm is the last important process of the semiconductor process, 5nm after the process of stability and production of high difficulty, coupled with the cost of expensive design, many designers will be discouraged by the IC and CES this year's General Assembly Intel formally announced the quantum chip, which means that the future of supercomputers are no longer dominated by semiconductor chips, quantum computers only when the official mass production shipments, you need to give us the answer.