TSMC acquired an area of 30 hectares for the construction of a factory in which the production of chips under a node of 3 nm will be carried out using EUV.
Industry sources claim that TSMC has acquired a large 30-hectare site at Southern Taiwan Science Park, a science park in southwestern Taiwan currently home to numerous technology companies. If this is true, TSMC would have mass production under the 3 nm node by 2023, while the factory looks set to start construction in early 2020.
Earlier this month, TSMC began shipping products manufactured under its currently most advanced 7nm+ EUV node, while planning to offer mass production under a new 6nm EUV node by the end of 2020. They will then pass through a 5nm EUV node to complete the 3nm EUV node in 2023, which will be activated with this new TSMC factory. It is worth noting that the nodes mentioned by different manufacturers refer to commercial nodes, not standard nodes (ASML), which reflect the true value of the node, in nanometers.