Note: 邱琮皓, 涂志豪 and 涂憶君, 南科環差過關 台積電6,000億大投資來了. 工商時報, Dec 19, 2018 (online)
("台積電表示,3奈米製程12吋晶圓廠已選擇在南科建廠,2020年之後開始建廠時程不變,並沒有延遲,2022年之後可望進入量產階段")
(2)
(a) News release: IBM Expands Strategic Partnership with Samsung to Include 7nm Chip Manufacturing; Agreement expands 15-year R&D partnership to define leadership roadmap for semiconductor industry. IBM, Dec 20, 2018 https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-12 ... -Chip-Manufacturing
("Today's announcement also expands and extends the 15-year strategic process technology R&D partnership between the two companies which, as part of IBM's Research Alliance, includes many industry firsts such as the first NanoSheet Device innovation for sub 5nm, the production of the industry's first 7nm test chip and the first High-K Metal Gate foundry manufacturing")
My comment:
(i) LPP stands for "Low Power Plus."
(ii) I read this new the day it was published. But almost no (English-language) news media in the world mentioned it, so I did not know what to make of it.