Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law

Two of the world’s largest foundries—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Samsung—announced in April that they’d climbed one more rung on the Moore’s Law ladder. Performance And Power-Consumption Improvements

Sources: Samsung; TSMC (Comparisons To Original Version Of Previous Node)

Foundries began 7-nm manufacturing without EUV, but later used it to collapse the number of lithographic steps and improve yield. Only Samsung and TSMC are offering 5-nm foundry services.

Source: spectrum.ieee.org