According to some reports, Intel company will not only be able to master the 7-nm process before 2021 , but also to apply a lithograph with superhard ultraviolet (EUV) technology in conjunction with these standards will not.
If we talk about TSMC company , the publication on the pages of the site DigiTimes demonstrates the willingness of the contract manufacturer to start mass production of 7-nm products already in the first quarter 2018. The characteristics of 7-nm process by TSMC should provide an advantage over the competition, as urged by the company's management. Digital projects 10-nm products already obtained by the three TSMC customers, the company will begin to receive revenue from the issue of 10-nm production in the first quarter of 2017. Thus, 10-nm and 7 nm in the case of TSMC will split only one calendar year of production.
Issue 5-nm products TSMC is going to learn using of EUV-lithography. Experimental samples of the products will be available in the first half of 2019. In the next five years, according to TSMC projected business contract manufacturing of semiconductor products will grow mainly at the expense of the smartphone segment, and the remaining half of the increase will provide high-performance solutions for computing.