News Report: TSMC's 7nm Lead Time Triples

[Admin]

DigiTimes reported that, according to industry sources, TSMC's lead time for 7nm chips has tripled from two months to four months.

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[srsgang92]

quote "lead time for 7nm chips has tripled from two months to four months". I think three times two equals Six?

 

[JayNor]

yeah, it is increased to six months lead time, according to two other articles.

according to recent articles, Apple and Huawei are the two largest 7nm customers.

on e article said Apple needed 75 million chips for the new iphone launch.

It might be a bad time to convert to euv, since asml's limited production of those machines is also being sought by Intel and Samsung over the next two years.