Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.: 7-nanometer chip has been mass-produced
Wei Zhejia disclosed this news at a technical seminar held by TSMC not long ago. At the meeting, he said that they have begun mass production of 7-nanometer chips, but did not disclose at that meeting which manufacturer produced 7-nm. chip.
For the 5-nanometer process, Wei Zhejia was revealed at the time that mass production would start at the end of 2019 or early 2020.
At present, TSMC is in a leading position in the 7-nanometer process and has received a large number of orders from a number of vendors. Its latest integrated fan-out package (InFO) technology has been approved by Apple to enable it to acquire the next-generation iPhone processor. Order.
In the second half of this year, TSMC will also OEM the latest chips for Huawei, AMD, NVIDIA and other manufacturers. Foreign media recently reported that Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon 800 series processors will also use TSMC's 7-nanometer process. In the past years, Qualcomm's series of processors are handed over to Samsung OEM.
However, compared with the central processor, the graphics processor adopts the latest chip technology later, and the graphics processor produced using the 7-nanometer technology is expected to enter the market in 2019. Invista will use TSMC's 12-nanometer technology in the near future. The upcoming next-generation graphics processor, the graphics processor using TSMC's 7-nanometer process may have to wait for some time.