The new TSMC A14 manufacturing process promises up to 15% more yield and 30% less consumption

TSMC has revealed its next manufacturing process that will replace the 2 nanometers of its N2 TSMC process. It will be called TSMC A14. Although the TSMC N2 process will begin its large -scale production later in this year 2025, while the new TSMC Node A14 will arrive a few years later, specifically TSMC talks about production in 2028.

The TSMC A14 process promises 15% more yield and up to 30% less consumption

According to TSMC, this new process promises 15% more speed in chips, maintaining the same energy consumption.

This increase in efficiency will also allow the consumption of processors and other chips to be reduced by 30%, maintaining the speed of those manufactured in current processes. It would also allow an increase in transistor density in 20%chips, giving rise to more complex and efficient processors.

On the nomenclature, it seems that we will enter a new marquetin war like the one that was already lived with the “nanometers” in the manufacturing processes, a terminology that did not refer to the real size of the transistors, as we explained in this article: the reality on the nanometers in CPUS and GPUS manufacturing processes.

If until now TSMC had maintained the nomenclature of the nanometers, it now adopts a nomenclature similar to that made by one of its main competitors: Intel. Recall that the most promising node prepared by the chips manufacturer is called Intel 18aand the company itself also works on its successor: Intel 14a