Dr. Cliff Hou, Senior Vice President and Deputy Co-COO (above), spoke at this year’s 2025 Technology Symposium. highlighting TSMC’s continued advancements in manufacturing technology and global capacity expansion, including updates on new facilities in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
As part of the technology portion of the program, Dr. Yuh-Jier Mii EVP and Co-Chief Operating Officer shared the following “3DFabric” technology portfolio:
He also offered that the TSMC System-on-Wafer technology, which TSMC reports will be ready in 2027, will be used to greatly enhance AI compute.
(Editor’s note: For more from the 2025 TSMC Symposium, check out Dean Freeman’s post here.)
TSMC Stockholders Meeting
In TSMC’s annual shareholders’ report, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei said the company is well-positioned in 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
The company’s 2-nanometer process is on track for volume production in the second half of this year, while its next-generation nanosheet-based A16 process, aimed at HPC applications, is scheduled for mass production late next year, Wei said.
Of importance to the packaging community is the projection that advanced technologies ( 7-nanometer and smaller) are projected to contribute up to 80 percent of total wafer revenue this year, up from 69 percent last year. This means more advanced packaging will be needed to package these chips.
Wei predicted that “…..artificial intelligence will not only runs in data centers, but will run in PCs, smartphones, automobiles, and even Internet of Things devices in the future”.
Are Intel Layoffs Coming?
The Taipei Times reported that Intel Corp is poised to announce plans in late April to cut more than 20 percent of its staff. Intel declined to comment.
This would be the first major restructuring under new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan, who took charge last month. In 2024 Intel slashed about 15,000 jobs in August leaving it with 108,900 employees at the end of last year, down from 124,800 closing 2023.
Intel also agreed to sell a 51 percent stake in its programmable chips unit, Altera, Corp to Silver Lake Management LLC. This layoff info was later substantiated by Reuters.
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