A heavyweight foreign media reported that industry chain sources revealed that TSMC's 3nm process technology has entered the experimental production stage at TSMC Wafer Factory 18 and is expected to undergo large-scale mass production in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Subsequently, TSMC CEO Xue Jia revealed in an interview: "The 3nm process technology will undergo risk trial production this year and achieve large-scale mass production in the second half of next year. Compared with 5nm process chips, the theoretical density of 3nm process transistors will be 70% higher."

With the improvement, the operating speed will be increased by 15% and the energy efficiency will be increased by 30%.”

This two pieces of evidence, one overt and one dark, greatly enhance the authenticity of the news.

Some media even reported this with the headline "TSMC has taken a key step in the 3nm foundry process, Korean stars are lagging behind again, and Xiaxin Technology will have to struggle for another two years to catch up."

In the current bipolar friction, the semiconductor chip manufacturing process has always been the focus of everyone's attention.

In terms of hard standards, 3nm is the next process node after 5nm. Even if Korean stars rely on their own "self-naming" to reach the 5nm process, Qualcomm said on Korean stars' cars that this 5nm is really not as good as TSMC.

Korean stars even shouted the slogan, "To surpass TSMC by 2030."

The result is obvious. When everyone broke the news and made hot topics about each other, TSMC stabbed the Korean star in the back.

Li Zairong's response was also very quick. He immediately arranged for senior executives to come forward and pretended to accidentally reveal that Hanxing's 3nm process would achieve mass production in 2022.

However, this interview seemed very weak in the subsequent operations.

Both Pingguo and Intel stated that they will become the first customers of TSMC's 3nm process.

Cook also said: "Pingguo is TSMC's current largest customer and its main source of revenue. The A15 bionic chip equipped on Pingguo 13 is the top of the industry. I believe that Pingguo will achieve greater success after using the 3nm process in the future."

breakthrough."

Although Intel's current CEO has been complaining about TSMC before, this time he is uncharacteristically following up on TSMC's 3nm process.

From the perspective of the global situation, old capital led by Qualcomm has now formed a blood transfusion to Korean stars, and emerging capital represented by Pingguo and Intel have transfused blood to TSMC to improve the research and development progress of the two processes and suppress it.

The development of Zhuxiaxin.

Although Moore's Law is no longer a golden rule in cutting-edge manufacturing processes, it still has traces to follow.

Stronger than TSMC, if you want to achieve mass production of the 3nm process, you also need to overcome some difficulties, such as complex chip design, soaring wafer foundry costs, and increased procurement costs for EUV lithography machines.

Although Xiaxin has been secretly upgrading, its executives want to wait until the 5nm process can be effectively stabilized before announcing it. After all, its own 7nm process has certain advantages over other people's pseudo 5nm process, but which one?

Thinking about TSMC, the Korean star is so powerful and is about to go to 3nm. The pressure of public opinion suddenly came to me.

Of course, there are many sensible people who know that Xia Xin started late and has been catching up very quickly in terms of manufacturing processes, but it is impossible to become a big fat man in one bite, so it is not popular.

But is the current online public opinion environment rational?

"Is Xia Xin okay? Others are already moving to 3nm!" There are still some comments like this.

In response to this, Xia Xin's senior management quickly organized a press conference to answer the question.

As the executive vice president and company secretary of Xia Xin Technology, Gao Shan was very knowledgeable in his speech.

"We must accept criticism because it can help us get out of the illusion of narcissism and avoid being morally and intellectually narcissistic for a long time and leading to destruction in narcissism."

The first step is to express your stance sincerely, and then conduct popular science.

"In fact, there are differences in the chip foundry processes between Xiaxin, TSMC, Korean Star and other companies. This difference also means that the number of nanometer processes does not represent the same level.

TSMC chose the traditional fin-fet transistor architecture. In order to surpass TSMC in the 3nm process, Samsung very radically chose gaa transistor technology.

As we all know, Xia Xin started from scratch in the field of high-end manufacturing, so we use the special process provided by Jiuzhou Technology.

This special process is currently confidential and cannot be announced.

But what I can guarantee is that in terms of technology, Kyushu Technology's process is more advanced than the process used by Korean Star and TSMC. In theory, chips manufactured using this process have stronger performance and lower power consumption.

Of course, I need to remind everyone that we and Korean Star both use brand-new architectures, so there are many technical problems that need to be overcome. The fin-fet transistor architecture used by TSMC has relatively more mature technology, and the research and development difficulty will be lower.

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But it is only a little lower. If we want to achieve mass production of the 3nm process, we need to overcome problems such as complex chip design, high foundry costs, and increased purchase costs of photolithography machines."

At the end, he said with a smile: "Yes, after the entire Daxia Semiconductor industry chain is upgraded, Xia Xin Technology will achieve three major advancements: mass production of the 7nm process, limited production of the 5nm process, and risk trial production of the 3nm process.

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Just a few hours after the press conference of Xiaxin Technology, Xiawei Yu Chengdong opened his mouth: "Xiawei Mate50 is coming back soon, and HiSilicon Kirin will also use Xiaxin 5nm process and 3nm process OEM in the future.

chip."

Dong Qi from Suiren Company even said directly: "Jiuzhou Technology provides key technologies for industrial upgrading, including light sources, OEM equipment and even process design. Jiaolong mobile phones will still use Xiaxin OEM in the future. When the production capacity is increased,

Stay tuned for more powerful and cheaper chips."

This week, breaking news comes one after another, and the hot news topics change almost every few hours.

What Pingguo originally wanted to do was to make great efforts to increase the sales of Pingguo 13, but he never thought that due to the chain effect, Xia Xin Technology, Xia Wei and Suiren Company would eventually become peach pickers.

Later, these meat-smelling media swarmed to the Jiuzhou Technology Park in Chengdu. After the application was approved, they stayed in the towns around the park to guard the employees of Jiuzhou Technology and the executives who occasionally went out.

The Chengdu City Bureau is open to this. After all, these reporters usually take photos of the surrounding environment to show the outside world the new look of Chengdu.

But it is a pity that the ideas of these reporters are destined to come to nothing, because the Jiuzhou Technology executive team is almost a homebody now because Boss Gu and relevant departments often talk about safety issues. They have few vacations, and when they usually take vacations, they usually take their families with them.

People go to large parks such as Titanium and Tantalum Stars to visit.
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