The site will build chips on TSMC’s A16 (1.6nm-class) and N2 (2nm-class) process technologies
I thought i had read that TSMC was keeping 2nm and more advanced technology domestic. I guess that only applies up to 2030? Maybe because they will have a new more advanced method by then.
It is interesting that they work up to 2nm starting from 4nm and 5nm. Are those processes significantly easier or cheaper to start?
It’s a matter of Taiwanese law.
“Since Taiwan has related regulations to protect its own technologies, TSMC cannot produce 2nm chips overseas currently,” Kuo said at a meeting of the Economics Committee in Taipei, reports Taipei Times. “Although TSMC plans to make 2nm chips [abroad] in the future, its core technology will stay in Taiwan.”
