TSMC set to have a GigaFab producing 5nm chips.
Analysts Forecast TSMC To Double 5nm Output This Year : Read more
Analysts Forecast TSMC To Double 5nm Output This Year : Read more
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What you your source for the "failure yields"?
Seems yields are pretty good, with "vanilla" 10nm in HVM for Ice Lake SP with SF and ESF being better.
For all we know half of Apple's 5nm are thrown away - since a Fab doesn't release actual production yields. One thing for sure the TMSC fabricated Nvidia A100 has not made any reductions to defect rate - as the current 80GB A100 is virtually identical to the launch 40GB A100s.
And all the yields in the world are meaningless if you can't source the materials to finish them to box ready status.
"Lets assume you like me owned a business. Most of our business is about keeping the ear to the ground and making conjecture of the sources you have, because, big money giants like Intel can't afford the bad press. Its like , we pay 100x the R&D that our little competitor pays... they were on their knees 4 years ago and now they are stomping all over us... Lies and deception is the new perception."
Well, As I own 3 businesses and employ over 1000 people - and the spurious claim of owning a business - while the rest is just kinda /yawn
"TSMC is nothing to do with Intel. In fact let me enlighten you on ASICs and PCB manufacturing and design I teach at College level Lol."
Impressive, "own" a business and a teacher... I have designed and had manufactured quite a few PCBs for my home automation system... and didn't need to take a class for that.
"TSMC use a more traditional flat level approach to their Transistors. It was a wise and stable move. It did mean that the TSMC 7nm would be equivalent to Intels 10nm approach because hey ho, Intel not only wanted to go Finfet, but Phallic FinFET with their 3D stack of transistors where they would build them upwards. So in the same Lateral space, Intel can fit 3 Transistors where TSMC can only fit two...."
/yawn - and TSMC really knocked their long fragile supply chain out of the park. Phallic FinFET - that's a new one. Do you see phalluses in everyday scenes? Might need some professional help for that.
"Let me just give you a hint of something that you just don't get... The 3D FinFET design was Novel and inventive, but came with servere drawbacks and this is where Intel is in Deep Do do and this is why I know they are having yield problems and are now very eager to get to the 7nm conventional design and pretend their Novel idea never existed. So let me put my analystic type thoughts through to you... Intel has been stuck at the 10 nm node for .... HOW long? ... and still are not putting all its fabrication plants in the basket (which traditionally it does!) and has been criticized for being stuck in the dark ages of 14nm. So how does it mask the problems. It is pretending to be 14nm chipsets in 14nm and processors in 10nm yet the Graphics side of the chips are still 14nm. what does that tell you ...."
TL;DR
"Let me just give you a hint of something that you just don't get... The 3D FinFET design was Novel and inventive, but came with servere drawbacks and this is where Intel is in Deep Do do and this is why I know they are having yield problems and are now very eager to get to the 7nm conventional design and pretend their Novel idea never existed. So let me put my analystic type thoughts through to you... Intel has been stuck at the 10 nm node for .... HOW long? ... and still are not putting all its fabrication plants in the basket (which traditionally it does!) and has been criticized for being stuck in the dark ages of 14nm. So how does it mask the problems. It is pretending to be 14nm chipsets in 14nm and processors in 10nm yet the Graphics side of the chips are still 14nm. what does that tell you ...."
We still have not determined that Intel is having yield problems, your wall of text proved nothing. Analystic.. that's a new word - you make it up?
"Just check under the Lithographic progress chart for companies and progress and somehow Intel seems to be on the working and developed Fabrication of 7nm and 5nm already... So either that is true, and they are fabricating chips to put in your arm with the vaccine, or they are lying and struggling with the 10nm process under high risk of failures."
Intel has several processes in progress at any one time - 10nm "vanilla" is in HVM of MILLIONS of Ice Lake SP (yes Sapphire Rapids coming later this year, but the customer base for Ice Lake SP (VM farm mostly) is not the same as Sapphire Rapids). Their 10nm SF (big advance there is Cobalt which is needed at nano scale since copper becomes a resistor) is mostly the market dominating Tiger Lake and likely Nvidia's worst nightmare a 4 tile Xe HP compute GPU... And risk production started for 10nm ESF - as both that process and Intel's Full EUV 7nm are featured in the Xe HPC which is undergoing testing. Last I checked TSMC was not doing Cobalt and still only doing a couple of layers of EUV...
and the Anti Vax - WOW, just WOW. You Made my List - had I read that first, I would not have bothered to dignify your rambling circular logic with a response.
Good Luck in All Your Future Stupid Ventures - and those squiggly red lines under some words mean they are misspelled