TSMC 5nm and 3nm chip production reportedly all booked up

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www.phonearena.com, Aug. 05, 2021 – 

Foundry TSMC has become the most valuable publicly-traded company in Asia, topping tech conglomerate Tencent. And here's one of the reasons why TSMC is red hot: ITHome (via Wccftech) says that the company's 5nm assembly lines are completely booked up and are running at full capacity. And a new report says that TSMC's 3nm production is fully booked as well.

Thanks to the chip shortage, TSMC has had to give priority treatment to its most lucrative customers such as Apple, which reportedly placed an order with the foundry for 100 million A15 Bionic chipsets. These chips will be manufactured using the N5P node which is an enhanced version of the 5nm node used to build the A14 Bionic chipsets that power the iPhone 12 series.

TSMC's 5nm and 3nm production is believed to be sold out

The lower the process node, the higher the number of transistors that can be used in a chip. The higher the number of transistors, the more powerful and energy-efficient a chip is. According to Moore's Law, named for an observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 and revised in the 1970s, the number of transistors that fit into a square mm should double every other year bringing down the process node at the same time.

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