{"id":19207,"date":"2024-09-02T12:31:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T04:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=19207"},"modified":"2024-09-02T12:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T04:31:43","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0%e8%8b%b9%e6%9e%9c%e3%80%81openai-%e6%88%90%e4%b8%ba%e5%8f%b0%e7%a7%af%e7%94%b5-a16-%e5%88%b6%e7%a8%8b%e9%a6%96%e6%89%b9%e5%ae%a2%e6%88%b7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/19207.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple and OpenAI reportedly become the first customers of TSMC&#039;s A16 process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan media Economic Daily reported today that TSMC&#039;s A16 process, which is scheduled to be mass-produced in the second half of 2026, has already gained its first batch of customers: in addition to long-term partners who have booked the first batch of production capacity<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b9%e6%9e%9c\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [apple]]\" target=\"_blank\" >apple<\/a>outside,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/openai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [OpenAI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenAI<\/a> It also placed pre-orders for its own AI chips.<\/p>\n<p>The A16 process is the most advanced node TSMC has announced so far. It uses the next-generation Nanosheet GAA transistor technology.<strong>TSMC&#039;s first process to use Super Power Rail backside power supply solution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>TSMC claims that the backside contact technology used in the A16 process can maintain the same gate density, layout footprint, and component width adjustment flexibility as the traditional front power supply.<strong>Especially suitable for HPC products<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/202302150929449091_0.jpg\" alt=\"OpenAI pledges to give US AI Safety Institute early access to next AI model\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that OpenAI is making progress in the field of AI chips<strong>Partners include Broadcom and Marvell<\/strong>(i.e. Marvell), two major custom ASIC design companies, among which OpenAI is expected to become one of Broadcom&#039;s top four customers.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically in terms of process, Taiwanese media expects OpenAI&#039;s custom AI chip to<strong>TSMC will continue to produce chips on its 3nm series process and the future A16<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan's Economic Daily News reported today that TSMC's A16 process, which is scheduled for mass production in the second half of 2026, has already gained its first customers: in addition to longtime partner Apple, which has already booked its first batch of production capacity, OpenAI has also placed a pre-order for its own AI chip. The A16 process is TSMC's most advanced node announced to date, utilizing next-generation Nanosheet nanosheet GAA transistor technology, and is TSMC's first process to utilize the Super Power Rail backside power solution. TSMC claims that the backside contact technology used in the A16 process is able to maintain the same gate density, layout frame size, and power supply as the traditional front-side power supply.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[190,345],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-19207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-openai","tag-345"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19207"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=19207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}