TSMC will build a fab in Europe for 28/22nm and 16/12nm chips

08 August 2023
This will be a boon for the local automotive industry, don't expect smartphone chipsets and GPUs to come out of that foundry.

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  • 08 Aug 2023

[deleted post]Taiwan is part of china in name only, they have autonomous government independent of mainland.

I would say it would be wise for China to go to moon and take all the land, than trying to invade Taiwan invoking unnecessary sanctions and war, they have enough talent in China to make rapid strides in fab tech.

    These are for automotive chips for German/French auto industry. Nothing to do with mobile / desktop / smartphone top of the line computing.

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      • 08 Aug 2023

      Anonymous, 08 Aug 2023It's okay HMD will buy all their 28 nm stocks for thei... moreexs cihna 28 nm you mean? sure go ahead 🤣

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        • 08 Aug 2023

        Anonymous, 08 Aug 2023It is rumored that the iPhone 15 Pro will have a new displa... morethe larger the transistor size, the more energy it will use. They can reduce the size of the actual chip, so it uses less transistors.

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          • 08 Aug 2023

          Anonymous, 08 Aug 202316/12nm sounds alright, but 28/22nm? That's already to... moreYour alarm clock dont need snapdragon 8 gen 3 in it or does it ?

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            • 08 Aug 2023

            Anonymous, 08 Aug 202316/12nm sounds alright, but 28/22nm? That's already to... moreIt's okay HMD will buy all their 28 nm stocks for their "latest cutting edge smartphones"

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              • 08 Aug 2023

              [deleted post]There is no replacement for displacement 😜😂

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                • 08 Aug 2023

                Anonymous, 08 Aug 202316/12nm sounds alright, but 28/22nm? That's already to... moreIt is rumored that the iPhone 15 Pro will have a new display controller that is based on 28nm to improve power efficiency. I guess it was 45nm or 65nm before. Not everything needs the latest and thus, most expensive processes. In fact, only smartphones and high end CPUs are on the latest 4/5nm at the moment. Meanwhile, GPUs are 6/7nm, storage is 10/12nm (just like low end smartphone chips) and all of the chips people don’t even think about, like in washing machines, cars or the aforementioned auxiliary controllers for things like display are on processes that are in the dozens and hundreds of nm.

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                  • 08 Aug 2023

                  Anonymous, 08 Aug 2023I didn’t even know new 12-28nm facilities were still being ... morenot all device needed 7nm or 4nm ...smaller only for mobile and pc or maybe gpu ai

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                    • 08 Aug 2023

                    Anonymous, 08 Aug 202316/12nm sounds alright, but 28/22nm? That's already to... moreits to counter china smic who successfully build 28nm duv....remember 28nm can go straight to 7nm...also china successfully go 1nm ..its just need more time to mass manufacturing

                    even asml Netherlands rage 🤣

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                      • 08 Aug 2023

                      I didn’t even know new 12-28nm facilities were still being made. I thought the supply of those is old facilities that were once cutting-edge and just continued to produce.

                        Anonymous, 08 Aug 202316/12nm sounds alright, but 28/22nm? That's already to... more22nm and 28nm are still used in some industries, for example, some automotive low-level chips use this node coz of reliability and cost...

                        There are other similar applications for this "long in the tooth" process node...

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                          • 08 Aug 2023

                          Vedanta will build $20 billion 40nm virtual fab existing on politician brain in india

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                            • 08 Aug 2023

                            Prefer Samsung over TSMC pays very low 2ages and bad conditions off work.

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                              • 08 Aug 2023

                              16/12nm sounds alright, but 28/22nm? That's already too long in the tooth.