TSMC To Use 28nm Chips By 2010

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company made the announcement today that it will start using advanced 28-nm technology by early 2010.

The new technology, which will support applications like cellular baseband and wireless connectivity, is expected to provide up to 50 percent more speed or 30-50 percent lower power consumption than TSMCs' 40-nanometre low-power node, TSMC said.

Isn't the next node supposed to be 32nm?

every1 used to follow a certant pattern in next node.. n then something happened recently it seems like.

So how long till the trickle down for Nvidia's GPUs to move to 28nm?

Originally Posted by dochmbi

Isn't the next node supposed to be 32nm?

TSMC is on a different node schedule:

110nm full node ->
80nm half node ->
55nm full node ->
40nm half node ->
28nm full node

How small can they go? Isn't there some kind of limit?

Originally Posted by Silverghost

How small can they go? Isn't there some kind of limit?

It depends on the material, I think silicon's limit is something like 15nm before you start getting into trouble.