TSMC Is Building New 8-Inch Fab Capacity and Updates 5nm Node Progress

[cageymaru]

TSMC CEO CC Wei has announced plans to begin work on building a new 8-inch wafer fab to satisfy robust customer demand for specialty process technologies. He also announced that the company is still on "schedule to move a newer 5nm node to risk production in the second quarter of 2019, followed by volume production a year later."

Wei reiterated TSMC's target for a 5-10% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for revenues through 2021. Meanwhile, annual capex through 2021 will be maintained at between US$10 billion and US$12 billion, Wei continued.

 

[skates15]

Wow.

 

[IdiotInCharge]

When did we go from measuring wafer diameter in millimeters to inches...

 

[Cyberbeing]

When did we go from measuring wafer diameter in millimeters to inches...

When TSMC says Inch, they are referring to cùn (the chinese inch, not imperial inch) which is equivalent to 1.193in (1000/33mm = 3.03cm) per unit.

 

[IdiotInCharge]

So we're looking at ~24cm platters?

 

[[Spectre]]

Meanwhile at Intel...

 

[Nobu]

Meanwhile at Intel...

Say's their 7nm process is on schedule, but don't worry, they aren't abandoning 10nm! /s

Hopefully 7nm works out for intel and they gut 10nm from their fabs. 10nm was a dumpster fire as far as I'm concerned. If it doesn't, there wont be much competition with tsmp...

 

[Crystoff]

Is it too late to make Taiwan a US state? It's only a little further than Hawaii, and we got away with that.