My understanding is that 1 company in Taiwan makes the greatest chips in the world and no one else can replicate them. How is that possible?

Question

My understanding is that 1 company in Taiwan makes the greatest chips in the world and no one else can replicate them. How is that possible?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Intel and Samsung can. The ‘nanometer’ thing is mostly marketing fluff. It actually doesn’t refer to any single measurement on a transistor. Thus, there is no part on a 3nm chip that is 3nm. TSMC just has the largest capacity to produce a chip that is in the ‘3nm class’.