Si dice che l'impianto di chip del nodo TSMC N1 sia in fase di pianificazione

Based on news out of Taiwan, TSMC is said to be in the early planning stages of yet another chip plant, this time for its first N1 node. The new plant will reportedly be built in a science park in Taoyuan, less than an hour south west of Taipei, according to the Commercial Times. TSMC already has a pair of chip packaging and testing facilities in the science park, making it a suitable location for a chip plant. This will be TSMC’s most northern chip manufacturing plant in Taiwan, although it’s not expected to start pilot production until sometime in 2027. TSMC hasn’t confirmed any of the details, but the company didn’t outright deny the report either.

Despite the potential global downturn in the economy, TSMC appears to be fully committed to continue to build new fabs for increasingly smaller nodes.The company is set to start its first commercial production on its N3 node this quarter and is expecting the N3 node to contribute as much as four to six percent of its overall revenue in 2023. Its N2 node should enter commercial production in 2025, but not much is known about the state of the N2 node at this point in time. The N1 node might end up being a 1.4 nm nodo, based on TSMC’s measurements, but the company is still in the very beginning of the R&D phase for this node.