News TSMC engineer boasts of recent 6% boost to 2nm yields, passing 'billions in savings' to customers

[Admin]

Improving TSMC's N2 yield by 6% could save billions for its customers, says employee.

TSMC engineer boasts of recent 6% boost to 2nm yields, passing 'billions in savings' to customers : Read more

 

[spongiemaster]

Improving TSMC's N2 yield by 6% could save billions for its customers, says employee.

TSMC engineer boasts of recent 6% boost to 2nm yields, passing 'billions in savings' to customers : Read more

I'm so happy for Apple. It's the holidays, I'm sure they need the money to buy Xmas presents.

 

[dalamite]

I'm so happy for Apple. It's the holidays, I'm sure they need the money to buy Xmas presents.

I read very recently that AMD will also be using N2 note initially alongside of Apple. AMD is at least more likely to pass the savings onto the consumers, but with Intel sucking so much these days, AMD might have no incentive to drop prices.

 

[mac_angel]

"customers" meaning the companies that buy those from TSMC. The end user customers definitely do NOT see any savings.

 

[A Stoner]

I did the same thing for a defense contractor on a physical part once and got layed off almost immediately after.

I increased their yield from <1% to >92% while reducing the production cost of each attempt by about 40% and increased performance of the item by 32%.

Hope this guy fares better and gets a promotion!

 

[A Stoner]

"customers" meaning the companies that buy those from TSMC. The end user customers definitely do NOT see any savings.

Eventually you could see savings. Competition still exists in many places and that means if the builder can save some cash in one area, and wants more of the market, the best place to do that is lowering prices and ensuring product availability.

If you have not noticed, lack of product availability is where much of the inflation in things like video cards come from. So, having higher yields will result in 2 forms of cost savings, one that can be seen in MSRP if the seller so chooses, and the other is in market availability which can lead to more MSRP sales prices as well as potential sales.

 

[cpdx7]

Wow I am amazed at the low journalistic quality here, this article literally says nothing, or nothing more than stating that the sky is blue. TSMC will have to increase yields dramatically in order to be production worthy. A 6% change at this point is to be expected and run-of-the mill. At this point, yields will need to improve a LOT more than 6% to become production worthy.