TSMC is celebrating a recent silicon milestone -- one billion 7nm chips manufactured. That's good die, not total manufacturing volume, and it's enough to cover more than 13 Manhattan blocks.

TSMC has announced that it's taped out its first 7nm EUV design, with 5nm risk production planned for Q2 2019. Previous 7nm chips were and are built using conventional lithography.

According to academic sources, TSMC's 7nm process, designated TN7, is a new chip production service that will have only one batch open in the latter half of 2024.

Apple's new C1 modem is the most power-efficient baseband chip inside of an iPhone according to the company, with the new in-house 5G modem seeing a combination of TSMC 4nm and 7nm process nodes ...