07-31-2019, 10:27 PM
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-n...40054.html
Quote:The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has silently introduced new performance-enhanced versions of its 7nm DUV (N7) and 5nm EUV (N5) manufacturing processes, called N7P and N5P, respectively.
TSMC’s 7NP performance-enhanced process, which is DUV-based, is not to be confused with the company’s N7+, which is TSMC’s first process to use extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV). The N7P is simply an optimization of N7 process; it uses the same design rules and is fully IP compatible with N7.
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As with the N7P, TSMC plans to offer a performance-optimized version of N5, its next-generation “full node,” which is expected to be used by most of TSMC’s customers in the near future once they switch from the 7nm processes. The process uses the same design rules and if is fully IP compatible with the N5 EUV process.