How TSMC killed 450mm wafers for fear of Intel, Samsung
Currently, the largest wafers used to produce chips at any scale in the semiconductor industry are 300mm in diameter. The diameter has gradually increased over time to improve throughput and reduce the cost of each individual chip as it allows for more to be produced per wafer.
But the project went back even further, with Intel, Samsung, and TSMC announcing in 2008 that they planned to cooperate with each other and the rest of the semiconductor industry on aAt that time, Intel said it believed that a migration from 300mm silicon wafers to 450mm would yield more than double the number of chips per wafer.
"Going to a bigger wafer, people say it's because of productivity. It's not exactly true. More it's a game. It's a game for the big guy to take advantage on the small guy," Chiang was quoted as saying in the CHM transcript.
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