TSMC announced its ground-breaking 1.6nm manufacturing process for chips and it also includes backside power delivery network that improves power efficiency and transistor density even further. The announced 1.6nm process relies on gate-all-around nanosheet transistors, just like the upcoming N2, N2P and N2X architectures based on the 2nm node. The new process alone allows 10% higher clock speeds at the same voltage and up to 20% lower power drain at the same frequency and complexity. Depending on the chip design, the new 1.6nm process can also fit up to 10% more...

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