The 1.4nm process was previously reported to be progressing smoothly, with TSMC seemingly facing zero obstacles. However, the semiconductor giant wasn’t experiencing technical difficulties, but its plans to secure the necessary real estate were stalled due to protests from landowners. Fortunately, this little distraction is no longer a problem, as the latest report states that TSMC has secured the land for two 1.4nm plants and one panel-level advanced packaging facility. Pilot production for the 1.4nm process is said to kick off as early as H2 2027; the majority of the land for the plants was owned by the locals The […]

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No matter how much TSMC is challenged when it comes to mass producing wafers on any advanced lithography, the company possesses a magic wand that allows it to bypass the most daunting of obstacles. Regarding its 1.4nm process, or A14, the semiconductor giant stated that the technology’s development is coming along nicely, with risk production expected to begin in 2027, followed by full-scale manufacturing in 2028. Success with the 1.4nm process will jumpstart development of more advanced A13 and A12 nodes, with TSMC hoping that long-term benefits overshadow 2nm After mentioning that its 2nm process has four times as many […]

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In the AI race, Apple isn’t the first name that you’d expect to be ahead of its rivals, but when it comes to chipsets that are tailor-made to tackle the aforementioned workloads, we doubt other names come to mind. While we have reported that the M7 is being designed to bring even better on-device AI performance to the table, the M8 is expected to surpass its predecessor in this aspect, while also being one of the company’s first silicon ranges to leverage a new manufacturing process. M8 could be Apple’s first 1.4nm SoC designed for powerful computing, bringing superior efficiency […]

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The quest to be the first foundry in advanced lithography is slowly being less and less prioritized by Samsung, as a new Exynos chipset roadmap reveals that the Korean giant will stick to its 2nm GAA node for a few years before finally taking a leap of faith towards 1.4nm. Thanks to this delay, TSMC will potentially beat Samsung as the first semiconductor manufacturer to introduce its sub-2nm process, but that’s no disadvantage. Exynos 2900 rumored to be Samsung’s first 1.4nm SoC, gravitating from 2nm to give Samsung time to refine its yields With TSMC expected to commence mass production […]

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The new processors come with a confusing naming scheme, and unlike what you would expect, these are based on a newer Zen microarchitecture. AMD Silently Adds 11 New Processors to Ryzen 200 and 100 Series, Featuring Zen 4 Architecture Recently, we published that AMD expanded its Zen 2 Renoir series by adding the Ryzen 7 4700LE processor. Looks like AMD isn't yet done with previous-gen Ryzen families and has decided to debut several more SKUs in previous lineups, but with a newer naming convention. It appears that AMD is trying to simplify the naming convention, similar to Intel, and has […]

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Samsung Electronics is all set to tackle Intel 14A and TSMC A14 with its own 1.4nm process technology, which should be ready in 2029. Foundry Battle Heats Up With Samsung Electronics Aiming for Mass Production of 1.4nm Process Tech in 2029 Intel and TSMC are one of the leading firms working on 1.4nm class process technologies. Although each technology is fundamentally different than one another, both are officially designated as 1.4nm products. TSMC's A14 fabs are expected to come online next year & competitor Intel is also set to accelerate its 14A technology due to high demand, and major customers […]

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Demand for AI chips has brought the 3nm supply to a near-standstill, with TSMC estimated to boost output by up to 175,000 monthly wafers, and it is still reportedly witnessing massive constraints. Unfortunately, not even a lucrative customer like Apple will receive preferential treatment from its foundry partner, and as AI firms eventually move to the 2nm process, it’ll become Déjà vu for the Cupertino firm all over again when it comes to securing supply, making the transition to the 1.4nm node one of Apple’s top goals. Despite advanced nodes no longer offering the same benefits at an acceptable price, Apple’s […]

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The A20 and A20 Pro will be Apple’s first 2nm chipsets to grace the industry, but according to the latest rumor, it won’t be long before the Cupertino giant unveils its first 1.4nm SoC, the A22 Pro. In fact, the new silicon is said to arrive after the announcement of the company’s 20th-anniversary iPhone. TSMC is aggressively building its 1.4nm facilities to accommodate the raging demand, with Apple likely seizing the first batch of A22 Pro Shortly after commenting on the arrival of the advanced AirPods Pro models, which will be equipped with cameras in 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has said […]

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One person's loss is another's gain, or a company's in this case. After all, AMD seems to be having a field day with its older 5nm CPUs, which entail crazy-high yields by the way, as both Qualcomm and MediaTek vacate some of TSMC's 4nm and 5nm lines on shrinking smartphone demand. AMD reaps the benefits as the broader smartphone industry enters a deep freeze, forcing Qualcomm and MediaTek to abandon some of their reserved capacity at TSMC By now, it's public knowledge that the global mobile industry is contending with a chronic DRAM shortage as most of the associated fabrication […]

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The 2nm GAA process will have a couple more iterations before Samsung has confidence in its cutting-edge 1.4nm lithography, but that doesn’t mean the company cannot begin early testing of its next-generation Exynos SoC on the newer manufacturing process. Early specification details reveal that Samsung will bring a new threshold for maximum clock speeds, not to mention the System Level Cache (SLC) boosted to a whopping 96MB. Bleeding-edge Exynos likely sticking with the same 10-core CPU cluster, with Samsung’s 1.4nm process bringing a 25 percent efficiency gain The Exynos 2700 is yet to be released, but @SPYGO19726 has shared some juicy […]

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If you want to gauge just how desolate the smartphone landscape has turned over the past few months, look no further than TSMC, which is now moving its increasingly idle 4nm capacity into still-constrained 3nm chip production lines as smartphone-led demand for the more mature nodes faces utter decimation. TSMC forced to recalibrate its production lines in favor of the more advanced 3nm process as smartphone-led demand for the more mature nodes continues to collapse According to a Taiwanese publication, TSMC is currently in the process of converting its 4nm-based chip production lines into 3nm ones as "non-Apple mobile phone […]

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It appears that the ongoing inflationary trend vis-à-vis memory chips, despite a modest reduction in spot DRAM prices recently, has reached demand destruction levels. After all, why else would MediaTek and Qualcomm slash their production of mobile chips by millions of units? MediaTek and Qualcomm are reportedly slashing the production of mobile chips geared primarily towards mid and low-end smartphones, as the ongoing memory chipflation starts impacting demand As we noted recently, the wider smartphone industry has been hit by a double whammy of sorts: the astronomical increase in memory chip prices over the past year, largely driven by the […]

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