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CTOnews.com, December 29, TSMC will hold a 3nm mass production and plant expansion ceremony in Tainan Science Park today, officially announcing the launch of 3nm mass production. Chairman Liu Deyin and more than 200 suppliers and partners attended. It is reported that TSMC's Nanke Chip 18 factory is the production base of 5 nm and 3 nm, among which the phase 5 to 9 plant of TSMC 18 is the production base of 3 nm.

At the beginning of the new year, TSMC will adopt the N3-node process with limited capacity, then switch to a more stable and efficient full-production N3E in late 2023, and then to N3P in 2024, when TSMC will put its 2-nm GAA process into trial production at the Hsinchu plant and mass production in 2025.

In previous quarterly earnings analyst conference calls, TSMC CEO Wei Zhe Jia said that they are pushing forward the 3nm process with a considerable rate of good products in the second half of the year as planned, and production is expected to increase steadily in 2023, driven by high-performance computing and smartphone applications.

According to the information released by TSMC on its website, their 3nm process is another whole-generation process after 5nm, with the best PPA and transistor technology. Compared with the 5nm process, the logic density of the 3nm process will increase by about 70%, the speed will be increased by 10-15% at the same power consumption, or the power consumption will be reduced by 25-30% at the same speed.

CTOnews.com learned that Samsung began manufacturing 3nm semiconductors in June and is preparing to launch more energy-efficient 3nm nodes in 2024. The company's chips will be used in Nvidia graphics cards, Qualcomm mobile processors, IBM CPU and Baidu cloud server chips. At present, Samsung ranks second behind TSMC in terms of global semiconductor market share.

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