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In this interview, Dr. Kevin Zhang, talks about the innovations that TSMC will bring in the near future.
Lot's of information, for people who like to know about technology.



List of questions addressed in this interview:

[00:48] Q: Is Moore's Law Dead?
[02:11] Q: The utility of incremental manufacturing nodes
[03:37] Q: Customer's leveraging node upgrades
[04:24] Q: How many of the advancements are customer or internally driven?
[05:43] Q: What do A16 and SPR bring to the table?
[08:07] Q: Does adding SPR increase cost per transistor?
[08:37] Q: Are A16 and SPR a package deal?
[09:15] Q: Where in the development cycle are A16 & SPR?
[10:16] Q: How different is NanoFlex from FinFlex?
[12:37] Q: How is the scale up of CoWoS progressing?
[15:59] Q: How do you plan to cool these massive chips?
[16:47] Q: When are you expecting SoW to be in production?
[17:08] Q: Due to new optics shrinking reticle sizes, will you reduce this too?
[17:32] Q: What are the current limits in semiconductors?
[18:59] Q: What is TSMC COUPE?
[21:33] Q: Which approach is best in optical?
[22:24] Q: Does TSMC have any plans for pluggable optics?
[23:15] Q: What are TSMC's plans for High-NA EUV?
[25:06] Q: How are the plans for the fab expansions going?
[26:48] Q: Does that extend to packaging?
[27:08] Q: What effects has the AI Boom had on your R&D decisions?

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Saving this for downtime at work.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Would have been nice to get some discussion on the long-term roadmap beyond A16 and silicon scaling.

Nevertheless, it was a great video.