TSMC 10nm outperforms Intel

TSMC 10 nm overtakes Intel. According to foreign reports, the global semiconductor leader Intel's 10nm process will be postponed until the second half of 2017. If it will be mass-produced by the end of the year, it will be one or two quarters behind TSMC.

Semiconductor Sanxiong - Intel, TSMC, Samsung in recent years in the advanced process of the big car fight, always led by Intel. Sanxiong's advanced process advances its footsteps, and it has the ability to grab heavy orders from heavyweight customers such as Apple, Qualcomm and MediaTek.


Intel and TSMC's advanced process ratio to map/economic daily report to share TSMC's first layout of 20 nm, making 16 nm slightly behind, let Samsung share some Apple A9 processor orders, the market has repeatedly transmitted Intel's intention to grab Apple orders The next battle of Semiconductor Sanxiong will fall on the 10 nm process.

Intel has not officially explained the progress of 10 nanometers, but according to the well-known financial website The Motley Fool, Intel's public relations department confirmed that the first 10 nanometer products will be launched as scheduled in the second half of 2017, and TSMC is scheduled to end this year. The time course of mass production of 10 nm, the longest may be one year behind.

According to Intel's plan, the 10nm processor will launch three product lines, the Cannonlake series processor, which will be mass-produced in 2017, the Icelake in 2018, and the Tigerlake series processor in the second half of 2019.

After 10 nm, it is believed that Intel's 7nm product should be available in 2020 and may enter the 5nm generation in 2022.

In contrast, TSMC's 16-nanometer process sprinted to the market this year, far ahead of rival Samsung. Zhang Zhongmou, chairman of TSMC, stressed at the law conference that TSMC will lead the market in a high market share in the future. This conversation reflects that TSMC will not only open its rival Samsung in the nano-process, but also overtake Intel at 10 nm.

TSMC's co-executive chief and general manager Liu Deyin said that TSMC's 10nm and 7nm process plans are scheduled to be carried out. In addition to the continuous improvement of the 10-nine trial production rate, TSMC also completed the first 7nm process production static in the first quarter of this year. Access memory (SRAM) output, scheduled to complete the product design in the first quarter of 2018, the main production base will be located in Zhongke.

TSMC's process surpassed the opponent's MediaTek

TSMC's 10nm process overtaking Intel, Samsung and other competitors, involving the competition between the client side, is relatively beneficial for MediaTek, one of the first wave of 10nm customers.

MediaTek's main competitors are Qualcomm and Spreadtrum. Among them, MediaTek is mainly based on TSMC in its advanced process. Qualcomm has turned to Samsung. Spreadtrum has selected Intel, one of the major shareholders, to supply it with two major manufacturers of TSMC.

In TSMC's 14/16 nm competition with Intel and Samsung, MediaTek first selected TSMC's 20-nm process to launch this year's flagship mobile phone chip "Helio x20", and Qualcomm's Opteron 820 at Samsung 14-14 Rice production.

MediaTek originally planned to invest in TSMC's 16-nm process this year. However, since the 16-nm process started slightly later than Spreadtrum, and this year's high-end mobile phones showed signs of selling, the product blueprint has been rebuilt recently, and the plan skips 16 Nano process, direct attack 10 nanometers.

At present, MediaTek has concentrated its research and development efforts on this 10 nm product, and the "Helio x30" project, which is changed to the 10 nm process, will send samples to customers at the end of this year and will be mass-produced early next year.

When TSMC's 10nm process successfully leads Samsung and Intel, the 10nm products on behalf of MediaTek will be able to follow the leading competitors such as Qualcomm and Spreadtrum, which will help to grab the flagship model of the brand mobile phone factory and increase the average price of the product. (ASP) performance.