TSMC officially started production of 5nm manufacturing process

Semiconductor foundry TSMC, which has customers such as Apple, AMD, and Nvidia, has officially started manufacturing semiconductors using 5nm manufacturing processes. 5nm manufacturing process production is expected to be adopted in the A14 Bionic, Qualcomm’s third-generation 5G modem, Snapdragon X60, and AMD’s Zen3 Ryzen 4000, which will be installed in the iPhone 12.

TSMC completed the 5nm manufacturing process infrastructure as of April 2019 and started pre-production. The TSMC 5nm process is expected to be produced by September this year with the Qualcomm SoC Snapdragon 875 and the 5G supported modem Snapdragon X60. It is reported that the Snapdragon X60 may be installed in the iPhone 12, which will appear in 2020.

5nm manufacturing process products will be produced at the factory (Fab18) located in Tainan Science Park, Taiwan, and the number of units per month is expected to be 60,000. In addition, it is suggested that the 5nm manufacturing process will be produced at a factory that TSMC is planning to build in Arizona.

Not only Apple and Qualcomm, but also AMD are offering TSMC a contract to manufacture more than 20,000 wafers per month for high-end GPUs, and AMD’s Zen4 Rafael and Zen3 Ryzen 4000 are also expected to adopt a 5nm process. In addition, Nvidia’s next-generation Ampere GPU, Hopper, is also expected to adopt 5nm. Related information can be found here .