{"id":378901,"date":"2026-09-24T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=378901"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:42:32","slug":"tsmc-begins-1-4nm-pilot-production-next-gen-chips-move-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tsmc-begins-1-4nm-pilot-production-next-gen-chips-move-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"TSMC begins 1.4nm pilot production: next-gen chips move closer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has reportedly started pilot runs of its 1.4nm process<\/strong> ahead of the volume production target it has set for 2028. For you, that means the company is in the early validation stage, checking tools, measuring yields, and working through the manufacturing flow on the node expected to come after 2nm.<\/p>\n

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Apple, AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm all depend on TSMC\u2019s most advanced fabs, so the company\u2019s 1.4nm process<\/strong> could eventually shape phones, gaming laptops, handhelds, premium mobile chips, next-generation GPUs, and even more efficient data center and AI hardware used for cloud gaming. \u201c1.4nm\u201d is just the process name, though, not the literal size of a chip feature.<\/p>\n\n

If you follow gaming hardware, this is the kind of update to keep an eye on. Smaller nodes can, over time, bring more transistors, better efficiency, faster performance, cooler-running systems, and longer battery life. How quickly any of that reaches you will depend on yields, costs<\/strong>, customer adoption, and demand.<\/p>\n\n

There\u2019s nothing for you to download yet: TSMC\u2019s 2nm family<\/a> is still the nearer-term battleground, and the 1.4nm process<\/strong> will likely be the technology after that for your future devices.<\/p>\n

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has reportedly started pilot runs of its 1.4nm process ahead of the volume production target it has set for 2028. For you, that means the company is in the early validation stage, checking tools, measuring yields, and working through the manufacturing flow on the node expected to come after 2nm. … Continue reading “TSMC begins 1.4nm pilot production: next-gen chips move closer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9351,"featured_media":378900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-378901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378902,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378901\/revisions\/378902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378901"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=378901"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=378901"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=378901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}