TSMC has started construction of its 5nm ‘Fab 18’ in Taiwan

**HEXUS** · 26-01-2018, 01:11 PM

It is the firm’s fourth 12-inch gigafab. Volume production is scheduled for early 2020.

**Xlucine** · 27-01-2018, 02:04 AM

TSMC says that once up and running, the triple phase Fab 18’s output will exceed a million 12-inch wafers per year.

So what makes it "giga"?

**chinf** · 27-01-2018, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by Xlucine

So what makes it "giga"?

Perhaps the capital cost? £12 billion is a whole chunk of change - that's the approximate cost of the huge Hong Kong to Macau crossing.

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