TSMC to Boost 4nm & 5nm Output by 25%: Ada Lovelace, Hopper, RDNA 3, Zen 4

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TSMC to boost N5 output by 25% this year.

www.tomshardware.com, Mar. 24, 2022 – 

For the last few years, TSMC's N5 nodes have been used almost exclusively by Apple for its system-on-chips aimed at smartphones and PCs. But as more companies adopt these fabrication technologies, TSMC has had to increase its production capacities. A new report says that TSMC will increase its N5 production capacity by around 25% this year to meet the demand for N5 chips from the likes of AMD, Nvidia, and MediaTek.

TSMC's N5 (5nm-class) family of manufacturing processes includes vanilla N5, performance-enhanced N5P, N4, N4P, N4X, and Nvidia-specific 4N. Apple is believed to use N5 and N5P for its existing A14, M1, and A15 system-on-chips, but companies like AMD, MediaTek, and Nvidia, are set to use various technologies from the lineup. Meanwhile, Apple's next-generation A16 is also projected to migrate to N4.

For example, Nvidia has tapped 4N for its Hopper compute GPUs (and perhaps for Ada Lovelace consumer GPUs), whereas MediaTek uses N5 for its Dimensity 8000/8100 and will use N4 for Dimensity 9000.

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