MediaTek, Qualcomm, Hasss Demand, TSMC Accelerated Mass Production at 7nm Process

TSMC's 10nm chip has been in volume production for a year. Apple A11, Kirin 970 and so on are all products of TSMC's 10nm process. TSMC will launch a 7nm process this year. Industry sources said that MediaTek is increasing demand for MediaTek, Qualcomm and Hass. Accelerate mass production of 7nm chips and launch second-generation 7nm EUV process in 2019.

Digitimes broke the news that TSMC's 7nm process has received more and more customer needs. It will use 7nm process for customer foundry chips. More fabless factories are planning to skip the 10nm node and use the more advanced 7nm process directly.

Hass, MediaTek, Xilinx and NVIDIA all expressed their willingness to use TSMC's 7nm process to produce next-generation chips, while IC design service providers Global Unichip and Alchip are also providing solutions to help customers accelerate 7nm chip development.

TSMC's 7nm process will be mass-produced in Q2 this year. TSMC expects that 7nm process will contribute 20% of revenue in Q4, and its annual revenue contribution will be around 10%. In addition to mobile chips, server processors, network processing Devices, games, GPUs, FPGAs, cryptocurrencies, automotive electronics, and AI artificial intelligence are the target markets for 7nm chips.

According to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will launch a 7nm N7 Plus process based on the EUV process after the 7nm N7 process.

At present, TSMC's 10nm process contributed 19% of revenue in Q1 quarter, but the official confirmed that the contribution of 10nm process in the Q4 quarter will fall to less than 10%.