{"id":962114,"date":"2025-09-16T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962114"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:30:19","slug":"mediatek-tapes-out-first-chip-using-tsmc-2nm-process-volume-production-expected-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/16\/mediatek-tapes-out-first-chip-using-tsmc-2nm-process-volume-production-expected-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaTek tapes out first chip using TSMC 2nm process; volume production expected in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese fabless company MediaTek said on Tuesday it has taped out its first chip based on the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company\u2019s (TSMC) \u201cN2P\u201d process based on the 2nm node. <\/p>\n<p>MediaTek, in a joint statement, said that it expects volume production from late 2026, adding that its partnership TSMC continues to yield high-performance, power-efficient chipsets for customers in flagship mobile, compute, automotive, and data center applications. <\/p>\n<p>TSMC\u2019s 2nm technology is the first to adopt the nanosheet transistor structure, and it is set to deliver improved performance and power efficiency of 18% and 38%, respectively, compared to the N3E process.<\/p>\n<p>The first chipset utilising the new TSMC N2P process is expected to be available in late 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMediaTek\u2019s innovations powered by TSMC\u2019s 2nm technology underscores our industry leadership, as we continue to push forward with the most advanced semiconductor process technologies available for a variety of devices and applications,\u201d said Joe Chen, president of MediaTek. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cN2P represents a significant step forward in the nanosheet era for TSMC, demonstrating our relentless dedication to fulfilling our customers\u2019 needs \u2013 tuning and improving our technologies to deliver energy-efficient computing capability,\u201d said Kevin Zhang, senior vice president (business development and global sales) and deputy co-COO of TSMC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese fabless company MediaTek said on Tuesday it has taped out its first chip based on the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company\u2019s (TSMC) \u201cN2P\u201d process based on the 2nm node. MediaTek, in a joint statement, said that it expects volume production from late 2026, adding that its partnership TSMC continues to yield high-performance, power-efficient chipsets for customers in flagship mobile, compute, automotive, and data center applications. TSMC\u2019s 2nm technology is the first to adopt the nanosheet transistor structure, and it is set to deliver improved performance and power efficiency of 18% and 38%, respectively, compared to the N3E process. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}