Taiwanese companies, led by TSMC, are the world's foremost manufacturers of logic chips. Taiwan's semiconductor industry will maintain that lead until at least 2032, according to Yang Ruei-Lin, Director of the Industry, Science and Technology International Strategy Center at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), reports TechNews.tw. The Semiconductor Industry Association has made similar predictions.
Back in 2022, Taiwan produced 69% of the world's logic semiconductors using cutting-edge process nodes, mostly for foreign fabless chip designers. This was done on sub-10nm-class nodes, with South Korea accounting for the remaining 31% — Intel didn't have a sub-10nm node, apparently, as the "Intel 7" rebranding of Intel's 10nm Enhanced SuperFIN node was still classified as 10nm. For 10nm–22nm nodes in 2022, Taiwan was at 40% followed by the U.S. with 28%. Finally, Taiwan produced 30% of logic on 28nm and older processes, just a little behind China with 33%, according to a report SIA. Based on these figures, Taiwan was the world's leading manufacturer of logic chips.
With the U.S. government helping chipmakers — including Intel, TSMC, and Samsung Foundry — to build fabs on American soil, production of logic and memory chips in the country will increase substantially by 2032. As a result, it's estimated that America will produce 28% of sub-10nm chips in 2032. However, Taiwan will maintain lead with 47%, again using data from SIA.
