This means that older generation 180nm fabs - such as NWF, the UK's largest semiconductor fab which is at the centre of a political row concerning its sale to Chinese-owned Nexperia - could be used to build ZTL chips with the performance of 35nm CMOS ICs, for use in high performance applications such as 5G/AI etc.
Today, SFN will unveil four ITMs – effectively process nodes - which fabs can use to build the new Zpolar transistors.
If employed, this would massively address the IC shortage…and also protect the IP of chip designers, while reducing the world's reliance on the near-monopoly of TSMC.
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