TSMC will be using the new tool for research in 2024, while rival Intel will be using the new tool for production in 2025.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co executives said on Thursday, June 16, the world’s biggest chipmaker will have the next version of ASML Holding NV’s most advanced chipmaking tool in 2024.
“TSMC will bring in high-NA EUV scanners in 2024 to develop the associated infrastructure and patterning solution needed for customers to fuel innovation,” said Y.J. Mii, senior vice president of research & development, during TSMC’s technology symposium in Silicon Valley. As Intel enters the business of making chips that other companies design, it will be competing with TSMC for those customers.
“The importance of TSMC having it in 2024 means they get to the most advanced technology faster,” said TechInsights’ chip economist Dan Hutcheson, who was at the symposium.