TSMC tiene siete clientes principales alineados para su 3 nodo nm

Based on media reports out of Taiwan, TSMC seems to have plenty of customers lined up for its 3 nodo nm, with Apple being the first customer out the gates when production starts sometime next month. Sin embargo, TSMC is only expected to start the production with a mere 1,000 wafer starts a month, which seems like a very low figure, especially as this is said to remain unchanged through all of Q4. lanzamiento y queremos aclarar que ese no es el caso para que nadie se quede confundido buscando el juego en estas plataformas, yields are expected to be better than the initial 5 nm node yields. Full-on mass production for the 3 nm node isn’t expected to happen until the second half of 2023 and TSMC will also kick off its N3E node sometime in 2023.

Apart from Apple, major customers for the 3 nm node include AMD, Broadcom, Intel, MediaTek, NVIDIA and Qualcomm. Contrary to earlier reports by TrendForce, it appears that TSMC will continue its rollout of the 3 nm node as previously planned. Apple is expected to produce the A17 smartphone and tablet SoC, as well as advanced versions of the M2, as well as the M3 laptop and desktop processors on the 3 nodo nm. Intel is still said to be producing its graphics chiplets with TSMC, with the potential for GPU and FPGA products in the future. There’s no word on what the other customers are planning to produce on the 3 nodo nm, but MediaTek and Qualcomm are obviously looking at using the node for future smartphone and tablet SoCs, with AMD and NVIDIA most likely aiming for upcoming GPUs and Broadcom for some kind of HPC related hardware.