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It seems TSMC has tied 450 mm and 14 nm rollout together. It is very risky, ...
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Report: Taiwan approves TSMC's 450-mm fab plan
Peter Clarke
6/11/2012 8:19 AM EDT
LONDON – The Taiwan government has a approved a proposal from foundry chip company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. to build a 450-mm wafer fab in central Taiwan early in 2014, according to a Reuters report.
The plan, approved by the Council for Economic Planning and Development, has a total investment cost estimated at between $8 billion and $10 billion but is expected to be producing about NT$200 billion (about $6.7 billion) worth of wafers per year in 2019, the report said.
Back in 2011 TSMC said it plans to install a 450-mm pilot line inside its Fab 12 Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2013 prior to building a dedicated 450-mm wafer fab to be known as Fab 15 in Taichung, Taiwan.
The pilot line would be capable of processing wafers at the 20-nm node while the Taichung fab would be aimed at bringing up 14-nm manufacturing process technology including FinFETs, reports said at the time.
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resistion
6/11/2012 10:58 PM EDT
No payback even by 2019 doesn't make sense. Also looks like just one fab with no contingency.
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the_floating_ gate
6/12/2012 11:40 PM EDT
It is insane to have this high level of advanced silicon manufacturing concentrated on this island - nuts - completely nuts.
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resistion
7/2/2012 12:05 AM EDT
It seems TSMC has tied 450 mm and 14 nm rollout together. It is very risky, since Samsung will be going ahead from 20 nm to 14 nm without going to 450 mm, just like Intel.
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