TSMC Starts Production Of 2nm Chip Trial For Apple And Nvidia

TSMC intends to build a small-scale trial production line in Zhuke. (photo: dock.nvidia)

JAKARTA - Seeing the high demand from Apple and Nvidia, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is rushing to start testing a 2 nanometer (nm) chip production.

According to reports, the two tech giants will be one of the first customers after TSMC achieved its estimated 2nm mass production by 2025, making the company stronger than competitors such as Samsung and Intel.

For mass trial and production production production, TSMC is said to have sent engineers and support workers who will use the R&D Zhuke facility in Baoshan, Taiwan and a new plant in Taichung.

TSMC intends to build a small-scale trial production line in Zhuke for research and development purposes of the initial 2nm, which will produce 1,000 wafers this year with experimental production planned for 2024.

By producing its 2nm family (the so-called N2 family), the chip will be the first generation of processors from companies to adopt a new gate-all-around (GAA) transistor architecture. Most likely, unexpected obstacles could occur and TSMC had to face them.

It is known, the value of nm is only one of the factors that affect the overall performance of chipsets, other aspects such as architecture and design also play an important role in it.

At the same time, TSMC also plans to incorporate an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system to gain efficiency, and this step is expected to save energy thereby reducing carbon emissions.

The new production method refined by AI is dubbed AutoDMP. Later, TSMC will use Nvidia-based AI to optimize chip designs 30 times faster than previous technologies.

Mentioned, the Nvidia method can make processors cheaper, offer higher performance, and be more power efficient, of course. This was quoted from Tom Hardware and Gizmochina, Tuesday, June 6.