If the news out of Taiwan is true it seems TSMC is going to begin mass production of 5nm chips late next year or early 2020. Annual production is estimated to be over 1M 12-inch wafers. That’s a lot of 5nm chips for sure. Of course promises are made to be broken and anything can happen between now and next year, but if they stick to their schedule we’ll be getting some nice gains in GPU’s and SoC’s. I love the progress.



Speaking at a TSMC technology forum in Hsinchu, Wei said the company will pour in NT$750 billion (about US$25 billion) to build a plant in the Southern Taiwan Science Park in Tainan, construction of which already started earlier this year, Wei said.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – TSMC to Begin Producing Chips on 5nm Process Late Next Year