According to some Taiwanese media, the TSMC foundry is already beginning to plan the development of the 2nm lithography, which could arrive in 2022.
The evolution and career in the development of lithographs does not stop for a moment. Despite the fact that AMD has just presented the first gaming graphics based on 7nm, your supplier TSMC is already investigating other lithographs. The Taiwanese company specializing in semiconductors could start producing silicon at 5nm next year. Sources from the Taiwanese company suggest that there are development plans for the 2nm lithography. The development team will work at the company's center in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
TSMC would already be focusing on 2nm
Hsinchu houses the most advanced facilities of the company. In December 2017, the company even highlighted an investment of 20.000 million dollars to have leading factories and facilities. Among these investments is the Hsinchu center that will be operational in 2020. It will be in this center where the 5nm processors will begin to mass-produce, which will be available to their customers that same year.
It should be noted that the company announced at the end of 2018, to have the necessary permits to build its plant for 3nm chips. The company does not stop in development and research and is already looking to the future and to upcoming lithographs.
It will be in the aforementioned Taiwanese town where the company will establish its R + D + i team for the development of 2nm. Some local media emphasize that Zhuang Zishou, one of the top officials of TSMC, would be the source. I would have stressed that they intend to develop the 2nm lithography there. He emphasizes that most of the talent is in that locality and that the central offices of TSMC are already in Hsinchu.
Everything indicates that by 2022 the 2nm could already be ready and the silicon production could begin under this lithography. An important ambition that brings us ever closer to the technical limit of silicon.
Source: wccftech
