A report out of Taiwan says that TSMC will have to delay the start of its 2nm production by one year until 2026.
It has been a pretty easy transition to the N3B 3nm process node for TSMC mostly because the foundry reserved the vast majority of its 3nm capabilities to build Apple’s A17 Pro chip, used to power the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. TSMC also gave Apple a sweetheart deal which put all of the risk on TSMC instead of Apple. Not that TSMC’s yield, reportedly at 70%, was that bad for the first year of a new process node.While TSMC smoothly helped Apple kick off the 3nm age for smartphone chipsets, it also has been hard at work preparing for the next node which will be called 2nm. Originally, TSMC said that it would start production of 2nm chips in 2025, but a report out of Taiwan from TechNews.tw (via ExtremeTech) says that the world’s largest foundry might have to delay this until 2026.
