The leap to the three nanometer scale is getting closer every day. Major manufacturers have been preparing their production lines for this scale for several years, and in some time we will see the SoCs that are in charge of controlling our devices have already taken the next step in miniaturization. A new evolutionary leap that enables higher energy and thermal efficiency. If you’re not entirely clear on what these jumps provide, I suggest you read this.

One of the key players in this evolution is TSMC, which started working on it back in 2017, and we have learned from time to time how it has evolved, and even that some tech companies have been testing this technology for some time. However, being the most relevant actor does not mean being the only one and in some cases not even the first to reach certain particularly important milestoneslike the one we will see in this case.

And it is so, as we can read in Gizchina, Samsung would overtake TSMC to become the first to start mass production of chips at the three-nanometer scale. Undoubtedly, although this does not threaten TSMC’s position in the third-party chip manufacturing market, it is an important signal from Samsung to the market that the Korean technology company is also capable of leading the sector.

However, it is important to clarify that to produce the first chips on this scale, Samsung chose its facility in Hwaseong, c.Its production capacity is lower than that offered by its main factory, which is located in Pyeongtaek. This is mainly due to two reasons. The first is that the Hwaseong plant is a facility that, as a general rule, initially concentrates production of integrated components when scaling up, and the second is that, at least for the time being, this production is aimed exclusively at the market of Chinese manufacturers of specialized mining accelerators cryptocurrency.

So we can understand it Samsung opted for the first phase of a limited range, in which it was possible to evaluate the performance, efficiency and reliability of its three-nanometer packages, before taking the necessary steps to jump into the great market of smartphones and tablets, which upon the arrival of this new evolutionary step. A step that is so close at this point that it almost seems like we can touch it.