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TSMC snubs 22nm
TAIWAN CHIP FAB OUTFIT TSMC has announced that it can't be bothered with the 22nm semiconductor manufacturing process node and will move directly to a 20nm technology.
In a company announcement, Shang-yi Chiang, TSMC senior vice president of research and development said that the company will turn out 20nm chips by the second half of 2012.
Chiang said that the move to 20nm creates gate density and a chip performance to cost ratio that are superior to 22nm process technology. This makes it a better platform for advanced technology designers.
Apparently the technology will use a planar process with enhanced high-K metal gate, strained silicon and low-resistance copper ultra-low-K interconnects.
Chiang said that the patterning technology and layout design methodologies required at these advanced technology nodes were all at hand so there was no point in hanging around.
He said that TSMC has reached a point in advanced technology development where it needs to be actively concerned about the return it gets on its R&D.
"We also need to broaden our thinking beyond the process technology barriers that are inherent in every new node," Chiang said. µ
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"Chiang said that the move to 20nm creates gate density and a chip performance to cost ratio that are superior to 22nm process technology"
why don't they skip to 1nm instead? it probably wont yield anyways but it sounds awesome!!! n_n
Hey TSMC, why not work out the problems with yields in 40nm before you go bragging about 20nm?
But, your ARM customers will be swept by Intel Atom.
in favour of 28nm (they probably couldn't solve the technical problems quick enough to make it worth while before 28nm became available) so 22 probably didn't look as attractive at that point.
Second half 2012.. that's simply great! 20nm! They had problems with 40nm... I'm worried that this is advertisement, not and announcement :(