TSMC's R&D boss addresses 40-nm yields, high-k, litho

[zalbard]

7000 chips good availability? dont think so.

They won't. They have other much higher volume products on 40nm to worry about.

Yep, it probably won't even be 7000 chips a month (if we can keep your 10% yield figure which is too low). This is not a lot by all means, because shipping millions of these chips (like ATI does) would take years.

Going forward, we plan to introduce 22 nanometer node about two years after we introduce 28 nanometer, so the first introduction we'd like to be in the Q3 of 2012, and this if for the high performance version. And followed by the low power version about the end of Q1 2013.

Lovely, probably a year later than Intel...