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TSMC gears up for sub-28nm production

by on08 December 2011



24,000 28nm wafers a month by Q3


TSMC is stepping up efforts to construct the third and fourth 20nm production lines in Fab 15 and it hopes the facilities will be up and running by 2013.

The outfit is planning to start 300mm wafer production in Q1 2012, while the second line should start pilot production of 28nm chips in 2012 and the first line is expected to churn out 50,000 wafers a month once production is ramped up. TSMC CEO Morris Chang claims 28nm chip output will hit 24,000 wafers by Q3.

The third and fourth production lines in Fab 15 will deal with 20nm products, but this is still a relatively long way off. For the time being the 28nm process will be the talk of town and it will mark 2012. The process has already been tapped for numerous GPU and ARM processor designs. Sadly, we won’t see any 28nm APU from AMD anytime soon.

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