TSMC Racing to 1nm, Investing $32 Billion for Fab

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TSMC Racing to 1nm, Investing $32 Billion for Fab

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TSMC Racing to 1nm, Investing $32 Billion for Fab
In an interview, a vice prime minister of Taiwan said that TSMC had already made a strategic decision about where to build its fab capable of producing chips using 1nm-class (10 angstroms) fabrication technology in the second half of this decade. Still, these chip production facilities will be costly.

TSMC fabs that will make chips using its 1nm-class production nodes will be located near Longtan Science Park near Taoyuan, said Shen Jong-chin, vice prime minister of Taiwan, in an interview with Economic Daily(opens in new tab) (via Dan Nystedt(opens in new tab)). Of course, TSMC's plans have to be made official, and a lot may change by the time the world's largest foundry commits to the plan, but it looks like the company has already disclosed its general intentions to Taiwanese politicians.
1 nanometer! Wow! That's certainly cutting it very close to hard physical limits. Though I wonder if it might be possible to go even smaller, if only slightly. Like 0.8 nanometers.

Regardless, if this pans out, I can't wait to see the performance boosts.
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Great news. Let's just hope Taiwan can avoid political instability this decade...
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That's amazing. I've heard 1 nanometer referenced before, on YouTube and elsewhere. But it's another thing to hear that our technologies are almost, if not already, there.
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