As most of you already know, TSMC is one of the largest chip producers in the world, and has contracts with all the big players in the industry including Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Sony or Samsung, so we would basically be talking about the processors of the future of the hardware industry.
TSMC 2nm chips in detail
The 2nm process from the Taiwanese giant is one of the most anticipated developments on the market in recent years, especially because it is expected to provide a gigantic leap in performance. In principle, TSMC will begin mass production of these chips towards the second half of next year (2025), but it has not been until now that they have provided detailed information about what they are like, their performance and so on.
TSMC highlights that its 2nm process has a 15% higher performance and 30% less consumption than the previous generation, which represents a huge increase in node efficiency. In addition, with this process they multiply the transistor density by 1.15 thanks to the use of nanosheet transistors with perimeter gate (GAA) and N2 Nanoflex technology, which allows several logic cells to be introduced in a tiny area, optimizing the performance of the node.
This also represents another important change because the traditional FinFET process that we all know is left behind to move to the N2 Nanosheet. According to TSMC, this process also allows the current flow to be more precisely adjusted, which allows manufacturers to more precisely adjust the parameters depending on the use they are going to give to the chip.
TSMC’s N2 node represents, as you can already see, a huge leap in performance compared to its current 3 nm node, which is why major manufacturers such as Apple and NVIDIA are already raffling off massive quantities of these chips by the end of next year. . However, it must also be taken into account that all these improvements also imply an increase in costs, and it is said that TSMC will increase prices by around 10%, something that of course and as it could not be otherwise, will directly impact the price of the products they will sell to us, the consumers.
Be careful with the price
This is no longer official information but rather assumptions, but it is said that a single 2nm chip wafer could have a price of between $25,000 and $30,000, depending on the profit margins set by TSMC. That is an estimate, but it will also depend a lot on the manufacturing performance rate that TSMC manages to obtain (since they usually have a high failure rate, chips that are unusable and entire wafers that cannot be used).
This means that if TSMC fails to manufacture a large enough volume to meet the demands of its customers (NVIDIA, etc.), the price could rise quite a bit… you know, the law of supply and demand, which they say, the perfect excuse to get rich with good things.
