Archive · 31 Dec 2025
TSMC to Mass-Produce 2-Nanometre AI Chips
TSMC, a big company that makes tiny computer parts called chips, is going to start making even smaller and more powerful chips called 2-nanometre chips.
These chips are like the brains of computers and phones, and they help things work faster and use less energy.
Only a few companies in the world can make these super tiny chips, and TSMC is the best at it.
They are so small that you can fit up to 50 billion tiny parts called transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail.
These chips are important for things like artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, and they can help make computers faster and use less energy.
TSMC is also working on even smaller chips called 1.4-nanometre chips for the future.
Making these chips is very hard and expensive, but they are important for the technology of the future.
TSMC to start mass production of 2nm chips by end of 2023.
2nm chips offer better performance and energy efficiency for AI and other technologies.
Only TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and Rapidus can produce 2nm chips.
Geopolitical factors and trade wars impact chip production and supply chains.
TSMC is already developing 1.4nm technology for mass production around 2028.
- Who
- TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Rapidus
- What
- Mass production of 2-nanometre chips
- When
- End of 2023 (TSMC), 2027 (Rapidus), 2028 (1.4nm)
- Where
- Taiwan, Japan, United States
- Why
- For AI, smartphones, data centers, self-driving cars
- Chip Size
- 2-nanometre (marketing term for transistor density)
- Transistor Count
- Up to 50 billion per chip
- Manufacturers
- TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Rapidus
- Production Start
- End of 2023 (TSMC)
- Applications
- AI, smartphones, data centers, self-driving cars
- Next-Gen Tech
- 1.4-nanometre chips (2028)