In the previous week, TSMC ran its 2021 Technology Symposium, masking its newest developments in course of node know-how designed to enhance the efficiency, prices, and capabilities for its clients. In this occasion, TSMC mentioned its rising use of Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) lithography for manufacturing, enabling it to scale right down to its 3nm course of node, properly past that of its opponents. TSMC additionally addressed the present points surrounding demand for semiconductors, together with saying that it’s constructing new services for superior packaging manufacturing. Joining CEO Dr. CC Wei as a part of the keynote presentation was AMD’s CEO Dr. Lisa Su, Qualcomm’s President (and shortly to be CEO) Cristiano Amon, and Ambiq’s Founder and CTO Scott Hanson.
As a part of the proceedings, TSMC supplied AnandTech a 30-minute interview with Dr. Kevin Zhang, SVP of Business Development, and Dr. Maria Marced, President of TSMC EU, as a possibility to study extra about TSMC’s driving instructions in addition to cooperation with trade companions. TSMC did request that we maintain the questioning solely on know-how issues and associated to the bulletins at its Technology Symposium, quite than talk about present world political matters.
Kevin Zhang SVP Business Development |
 Maria Marced President, TSMC EU |
 Ian Cutress AnandTech |
Dr. Kevin Zhang has been TSMC’s Senior Vice President of Business Development for nearly a 12 months, having being promoted from the Design Technology Team. Previous to becoming a member of TSMC, Dr. Zhang spent 11 years at Intel as an Intel Fellow, turning into Vice President of the Technology and Manufacturing Group in addition to Director of Circuit Technology. Dr. Zhang has revealed over 80 papers in technical conferences and analysis journals, holds 55 patents in built-in circuit know-how, and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Zhang would be the convention chair for ISSCC 2022.
Dr. Maria Marced is President of TSMC Europe, chargeable for driving technique and improvement of the corporate within the area, and has been within the place since 2007. Prior to this, Dr. Marced spent 4 years at NXP and 19 years at Intel in related top-position roles. Dr. Marced serves because the Chairwoman of the EMEA Leadership Council of the GSA (Global Semiconductor Alliance), is on the board of CEVA, and holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering.
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Ian Cutress: TSMC has said that it has had in-house EUV pellicle manufacturing since 2019, and TSMC is now vastly ramping up manufacturing of pellicles. How intensive is the use in manufacturing, and the way does it additional TSMC’s aggressive benefit versus different fabs?
Kevin Zhang: We clearly have invested on this space in-house, and I feel it’s a very distinctive know-how for us. We are capable of leverage it to carry up our EUV mass manufacturing. If you take a look at the way in which we ran our 7 nm, on the 6 nm, and now in 5 nm, all with the EUV, clearly we’ve got made super progress. So that is positively an space we predict we’ve got achieved properly with our distinctive know-how benefit.
Maria Marced: One factor, as a result of I’m right here in Amsterdam, so we’re comparatively near ASML – we’ve got had particular coaching by them. I can inform you, having this manufacturing in-house actually permits us to increase the lifetime of the masks. Typically in EUV, the masks will get soiled, and due to this fact, with quick deadlines, this actually helps us so much to enhance the productiveness of EUV and the masks.
IC: So by having it on web site means you’ve bought much less journey for the masks, and it will get much less soiled as a consequence of much less journey?
MM: That’s right.
IC: We sometimes affiliate complicated and specialty applied sciences with vanguard clients. Given that these clients are sometimes within the low single digits, how does TSMC…
