TSMC 3nm Chip Production On Track For Late 2022 With Huge Power Efficiency Gains | HotHardware First TSMC stole IBM's spotlight, announcing their 1nm process, and now they are quickly following up with bragging about their 3nm, coming out next year. They're still using the same conventional fin-fet transistors, but this is about as small as fin-fet can go, because electronics start to transform into quantum weirdness and thermodynamics around that small, and you need entirely different transistors. Ideally, for a chip like this one, you want four low-power efficiency cores that can run downloads, the operating system, etc. and 8 high performance cores for crunching the largest numbers, combined with about 32gb or ram and roughly 14tf of graphics. That's enough for a laptop to surf the web in VR, while doing your homework for you at the same time.
