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TSMC charts a course to trillion-transistor chips, eyes 1nm monolithic chips with 200 billion transistors​


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By Anton Shilov
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TSMC mulls A14, A10 process technologies in the next few years.

At the IEDM conference, TSMC charted a course to delivering chip packages with one trillion transistors, much like Intel divulged last year. Those behemoths will come courtesy of 3D-packaged collections of chiplets on a single chip package, but TSMC is also working to develop chips with 200 billion transistors on a single piece of silicon. To meet that goal, the company reaffirmed that it is working on 2nm-class N2 and N2P production nodes and 1.4nm-class A14 and 1nm-class A10 fabrication processes that are due by 2030.

In addition, TSMC foresees advancements in packaging technologies (CoWoS, InFO, SoIC, etc.), allowing it to build massive multi-chiplet solutions packing more than a trillion transistors around 2030.
 

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Year​
Die shrink​
iPhone chip​
Mac chip​
2018​
7nm​
A12​
-​
2019​
7nm​
A13​
-​
2020​
5nm​
A14​
M1​
2021​
5nm​
A15​
M1​
2022​
5nm​
A16​
M2​
2023​
3nm​
A17​
M3​
2024​
3nm​
A18​
M4​
2025​
2nm​
A19​
M5​
2026​
2nm​
A20​
M6​
2027​
1.4nm​
A21​
M7​
2028​
1.4nm​
A22​
M8​
2029​
1nm​
A23​
M9​
2030​
1nm​
A24​
M10​
2031​
0.7nm​
A25​
M11​
2032​
0.7nm​
A26​
M12​
2033​
0.5nm​
A27​
M13​
2034​
0.5nm​
A28​
M14​
2035​
0.3nm​
A29​
M15​
2036​
0.3nm​
A30​
M16​
2037​
0.2nm​
A31​
M17​

 

Chuckeee

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While I think an annual Axx update is highly probable. Looking to annual Mxx updates and bi-annual die shrinkage for more than a decade into future might not be a sure thing.
 
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