On Wednesday, TSMC unveiled its A16 (1.6nm) know-how for the primary time on the 2024 North America Expertise Symposium in California, with the Taiwan-based chip foundry saying plans to start mass-production with the brand new manufacturing course of in 2026. TSMC claimed that its A16 know-how will increase logic density and chip efficiency by combining superior nanosheet transistors with bottom energy rail options. In comparison with the N2P course of, A16 presents an 8-10% enhance in pace on the similar working voltage, a 15-20% discount in energy consumption on the similar pace, and a density enchancment of as much as 1.1 instances to help knowledge middle merchandise, in line with the corporate. [Economic Daily News, in Chinese]
