Wei Zhejia revealed the news at a technical seminar held by TSMC not long ago. He said at the meeting that they have started mass production of 7-nanometer chips, but at the meeting did not disclose which manufacturer is producing 7-nanometer. chip.
For the 5 nanometer process, Wei Zhejia revealed that mass production would begin 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 processing unit, the graphics processor is later adopted in the latest chip technology. The graphics processor produced by the 7-nanometer process is expected to enter the market in 2019. NVIDIA will adopt TSMC's 12-nanometer process in the near future. The upcoming next-generation graphics processor, the graphics processor using TSMC's 7-nanometer process may have to wait for a while.