100% of N3 production

[Yoused]

Apple has reserved 100% of TSMC's N3 production, which I hear has 80% yield. It appears that they do not want to be caught with an undersupply of product, as has often been the case in the past.

One article I saw said that TSMC is slowly ramping up production and in March, expects to put out 45K wafers. By my math, that is an average of 1 wafer a minute, which sounds like a lot of production lines.

 

[Cmaier]

Apple has reserved 100% of TSMC's N3 production, which I hear has 80% yield. It appears that they do not want to be caught with an undersupply of product, as has often been the case in the past.

One article I saw said that TSMC is slowly ramping up production and in March, expects to put out 45K wafers. By my math, that is an average of 1 wafer a minute, which sounds like a lot of production lines.

80% yield at this point in the lifecycle is very impressive.

 

[Yoused]

80% yield at this point in the lifecycle is very impressive.

It is signifcantly better than Samsung's GAAFET/3 – by at least 4x. But, I suspect GAAFET is quite a bit harder to do.

 

[exoticspice1]

80% yield at this point in the lifecycle is very impressive.

geez thats why TSMC #1. Intel still struggling to get off Intel 7 and Intel 4 won't even be huge volume.

 

[theorist9]

Apple has reserved 100% of TSMC's N3 production, which I hear has 80% yield. It appears that they do not want to be caught with an undersupply of product, as has often been the case in the past.

One article I saw said that TSMC is slowly ramping up production and in March, expects to put out 45K wafers. By my math, that is an average of 1 wafer a minute, which sounds like a lot of production lines.

Unfortunately, their source is a Digitimes article and, while it may be true, I've not seen independent confirmation of this elsewhere. Also, that link you posted, which is to okexbtczs.tibet.org , appears sketchy, based on some of its attempted redirects (and its content is plagiarized from Tech Times: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/...utput-processors-to-lead-the-3nm-industry.htm ):