Taiwanese tech giant TSMC said on Thursday (29 December) that it had started mass production of next-generation chips, among the most advanced to come to market.
The Taiwanese company operates the world's largest silicon wafer factories and produces high-performance chips used in everything from smartphones and cars to missiles. It is also Apple's primary chip supplier.
The news follows last year's announcement that Samsung Electronics had become the first chipmaker in the world to mass-produce advanced 3nm microchips, which are said to be smaller as well as more powerful and efficient than currently used 5nm semiconductors.
"Our 3nm technology will be used massively in future state-of-the-art technological products, including supercomputers, cloud servers, high-speed internet and many, many mobile devices," TSMC chairman Mark Liu said.
“The semiconductor industry will grow rapidly over the next decade, and Taiwan will surely play...