At its European Technology Symposium final week TSMC revealed a number of the particulars about its Global Gigafab Manufacturing program, the corporate’s technique to copy its manufacturing processes throughout its a number of gigafab websites.
The want for large-scale multi-national fabs to have a course of in place to copy their services is well-documented at this level. As scaling-up at on the gigafab measurement means scaling-out as a substitute, chip makers want to have the ability to rapidly get new and up to date manufacturing processes ported to different services with a purpose to hit their needed throughput – and to keep away from a multi-quarter bottlenecks that come from having to freshly-tune a fab.
Intel, for his or her half, has a widely known Copy Exactly program, which is without doubt one of the firm’s main aggressive benefits, permitting it to share course of recipes throughout its fabs world wide to maximise yields and cut back efficiency variability. Meanwhile, as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is constructing extra capability in several components of the world, it has reached the purpose the place it wants an analogous program with a purpose to rapidly maximize its yields and productiveness at its new fabs in Japan and the U.S. And in some respects, TSMC’s program goes even additional than Intel’s, with an extra concentrate on sustainability and social duty.
“As mentioned at last year’s symposium, [Global Gigafab manufacturing] is a powerful global manufacturing and management platform,” stated Y.L. Wang, Vice President of Fab Operations TSMC. “We realise one fab management to ensure our Gigafab to achieve consistent operation efficiency as well as production quality on a global scale. Moreover, we also pursue sustainability across our global footprint covering green manufacturing, global talent development, supply chain localization, as well as social responsibility.”
| TSMC’s Global GigaFab Manufacturing Data by TSMC (Compiled by AnandTech) |
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| Manufacturing Excellence | Sustainability | ||
| Global One Fab Manufacturing | Green Manufacturing | ||
| ML-based Process Control | Global Talent Development | ||
| Manufacturing Agility and Quality | Supply Chain Localization | ||
| Maximum Productivity | Social Responsibility | ||
When it involves enhancements of course of expertise, there are two predominant mechanisms: the continual course of enhancements (CPI) to enhance yields, in addition to statistical course of management (SPC) cut back efficiency variations. To accomplish that, the corporate has a number of inside methods that depend on machine learning-based course of management, fixed high quality measuring, and varied productiveness enhancing strategies. With Global Gigafab manufacturing TSMC can use CPI and SPC to enhance yields and efficiency on the worldwide scale by sharing information between completely different websites.
“When we port a technology from Taiwan to Arizona, the fab set up, the process control system, everything is actually a copy from Taiwan,” stated Kevin Zhang, Senior Vice President, Business Development and Overseas Operations Office, and Deputy Co-COO at TSMC.
TSMC but has to start out making chips at its fabs in Germany, Japan, and the United States, so it stays to be seen how briskly the foundry will enhance yields to Taiwanese ranges at its Fab 23 (in Kumamoto, Japan) and Fab 21 (in Arizona) once they start operations in 2024 and 2025, however with Global Gigafab Manufacturing program in place, that is doubtless set to occur relatively before later.
