Good news around the TSMC house regarding 40 sqm production

Maybe the prayers will finally be heard, the dark skies will withdraw from TSMC’s plants, prosperity will begin, and blessed peace will come.

TSMC, which has long struggled with manufacturing difficulties at 40 nm, has released new information that could give cause for optimism. There is a lot of responsibility and burden on the company, as the two competing vendors, ATI and NVIDIA, also build their graphics processors in their facilities, which is not good for anyone, neither the VGA vendors nor TSMC, nor us. manufacturing problems affect the success and price of a product. 

Mark Liu (first from right)

Mark Liu, the company’s president of strategic management, said in a recent due date that TSMC’s yield ratio for 40nm slices has improved, and thanks to improvements, the current quality is now roughly the same as the success of 65nm wafers, which are very old. production rate. The stubborn problems that have made it difficult in recent months have been solved, Digitimes writes. At a ceremony at TSMC yesterday, it was announced that construction of the new factory building (Phase 5), which is part of the Fab 12 plant, has been completed. It is particularly gratifying that the company will also be hiring newly hired employees for larger production, where production of 28 sqm will also begin in the third quarter. 

Management also plans to build another new part of the building, identified as Phase 6, within Fab 12, where they will be producing the future 22 sqm wafers when the time comes. If the above is correct, there is reason to sparkle, especially at NVIDIA, as the production of the huge GF100 chip has so far proved to be too much of a bite for TSMC, which also ran into trouble with the production of AMD’s Cypress GPU at first. TSMC will finally not be an obstacle, the bloody DirectX 11 war between ATI and NVIDIA could start soon.