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TSMC holds 3nm ceremony
Tomorrow, Thursday 29th, TSMC will hold a ceremony to celebrate achieving volume production on 3nm, reports Focus Taiwan.
www.electronicsweekly.com, Dec. 28, 2022 –
Such a ceremony is unusual and is being held, it is said, to emphasise that TSMC's technology development and initial deployment takes place in Taiwan – at a time when the company has started building plants outside Taiwan.
Recently TSMC said that its investment in manufacturing facilities in the USA would rise to $40 billion from the initial $12 billion planned, and that it would build a 4nm plant in Arizona coming on-stream in 2024 and a 3nm Arizona fab coming on-stream in 2026.
The investment aims to deliver an Arizona-based capacity of 600,000 wafers a year of 4nm and 3nm chips.
Tomorrow's ceremony will take the form of a topping out event celebrating the installation of the final beam of the 3nm facility in the Southern Taiwan Science Park in Taiwan.
The 3nm process is finfet-based, as will be the upgrade to the process called N3E scheduled for introduction next year.
It is reported that TSMC is charging $20k for a 3nm wafer – a benefit of being the only company in volume production on 3nm.
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