{"id":50353,"date":"2022-08-19T18:37:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tsmc-secures-3nm-orders-from-amd-qualcomm-others-says-report\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T18:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:37:13","slug":"tsmc-secures-3nm-orders-from-amd-qualcomm-others-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tsmc-secures-3nm-orders-from-amd-qualcomm-others-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"TSMC Secures 3nm Orders From AMD, Qualcomm & Others Says Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has received multiple orders for its 3-nanometer (3nm) chip manufacturing technology according to a report in the Taiwanese media. TSMC is slated to ramp up 3nm production in the current half of this year, and the technology came at the center of controversy earlier this month when it was reported that the manufacturing process would face delays due to Intel Corporation’s design changes for its products. TSMC denied the report and stated that its process technologies were progressing as planned, and now, the Taiwanese publication DigiTimes is reporting that the firm has procured orders from several different companies to manufacture their products with the advanced technology.<\/p>\n
The report from DigiTimes quotes sources at an integrated circuit design firm to share details for the orders that TSMC might have received for the 3nm process. Chipmakers have to rely on a strong order list for their new processes, as the high investment and setup costs can only be recovered once a large number of semiconductor wafers are manufactured. The machines used for advanced chip manufacturing are costly to run, and too few orders often result in capacity underutilization which then costs the chip maker more money to manufacture than the profit that it can make.<\/p>\n
This also resulted in some controversy when Korean chaebol Samsung Electronic’s chipmaking division Samsung Foundry announced that it was mass producing 3nm earlier this year. The decision, widely seen as an effort by Samsung to gain a leg up over TSMC, was also followed by questions related to the potential orders that the company might have received for its products. One such order was confirmed from a Chinese company, but details for the others remained unclear.<\/p>\n