TSMC’s 3 Nm Process a 1.7x Improvement over 5 Nm: 300 Million Transistors per Square MM

Tsing · Apr 19, 2020

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AMD is almost certain to release Ryzen chips produced on TSMC’s future 3 nm process, but while those are still a long way off (the company’s 5 nm “Zen 4” processors are still a year or two away), we are beginning to learn what they could be packing.

According to a WikiChip report, TSMC’s N3 (3 nm) node will feature a 1.7x improvement over N5, which is equal to a density of almost 300 million transistors per square millimeter. TechPowerUp puts that into perspective by equating that to shrinking a Pentium 4 processor die to the size of a pinhead...

TSMC’s 3 Nm Process a 1.7x Improvement over 5 Nm: 300 Million Transistors per Square MM

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