TSMC will set up a new Taiwan R&D center dedicated to research on 2nm chips

According to the Financial Associated Press, TSMC senior vice president Kevin Zhang said in a pre-recorded video that the new Taiwan R&D center will operate an advanced production line with 8,000 engineers.

In addition, Y.P. Chin, senior vice president of TSMC, said in another pre-recorded video that the facility will focus on researching products such as 2nm chips. TSMC is acquiring land for the new 2nm chip fab next to the new R&D center.

It is understood that on August 25th, TSMC President Wei Zhejia talked about TSMC’s future 4nm process, 3nm process and the new N12e special process at the TSMC technology seminar.

Wei Zhejia pointed out that N5P, an upgraded version of N5, will be mass-produced in 2021. Just as the N6 process was developed based on the N7 process, TSMC also developed the N4 process based on the N5 process to meet a wide range of downstream product needs.

According to the previous official website of TSMC, as of July this year, TSMC has produced more than 1 billion functionally intact and defect-free 7nm chips.

TSMC stated that TSMC’s 7nm process technology was put into mass production in April 2018. It has now served more than dozens of customers around the world and created more than 100 chip products. The 1 billion 7nm chips it produced would be enough to cover 13 In Manhattan, each 7nm chip has more than 1 billion transistors.