TSMC plans 1nm chip plant, but initial location abandoned

Apple’s A17 Pro is fabricated on 3nm process, while TSMC is already planning to produce 1nm chips. The next year’s A18 chipset is expected to be manufactured on a smaller version of TSMC’s 3nm process. Beyond that, the Taiwanese chip maker is already preparing for future technologies.

According to a new report, TSMC had initially settled on a location for its first 1nm chip plant, but that would have meant relocating some residents. The report says that residents of Longtan objected, and TSMC has now agreed to look elsewhere.

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As local residents opposed, TSMC canceled its plan to build an advanced chip factory in a rural part of northern Taiwan. The company said it would work with the government-run Science Park Administration “to evaluate land in Taiwan suitable for building semiconductor fabs”. It did not mention potential alternative sites.

The world’s largest contract chipmaker was intending to build a 1-nanometre chip factory in Longtan, according to a Central News Agency report in December [but TSMC] said it would not build a advanced chip factory in a rural part of northern Taiwan after local residents protested that they did not want to move to accommodate an expansion of an industrial park.

The company said it would work with the government-run Science Park Administration “to evaluate land in Taiwan suitable for building semiconductor fabs”. It did not mention potential alternative sites.