{"id":188584,"date":"2024-05-03T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/tsmc-fires-shot-across-intels-bow-with-new-1-6nm-a16-node-for-2026"},"modified":"2024-05-03T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:41:00","slug":"tsmc-fires-shot-across-intels-bow-with-new-1-6nm-a16-node-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/tsmc-fires-shot-across-intels-bow-with-new-1-6nm-a16-node-for-2026","title":{"rendered":"TSMC Fires Shot Across Intel\u2019s Bow With New 1.6nm A16 Node for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tsmc-fires-shot-across-intels-bow-with-new-1-6nm-a16-node-for-20263.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TSMC has announced a new process for 2026 that seems to be a direct attack on Intel. As we all know, Intel\u2019s first Angstrom node is Intel 20A, to be followed by Intel 18A. In a move reminiscent of a disposable razor commercial, TSMC has announced a new process called \u201cA16\u201d for 2026\u2014which, as you can see, has a lower number than Intel\u2019s competing nodes. It will also be the first TSMC process to offer backside power delivery, which Intel will also deliver with its Angstrom nodes.<\/p>\n<p>TSMC unveiled the A16 process at its North America Technology Symposium in Santa Clara this week. Notably, Intel has its headquarters in Santa Clara, so this is like TSMC standing on the company\u2019s front lawn and yelling, \u201cYou want some of this?!\u201d The A16 process will follow the company\u2019s 2nm node and feature nanosheet gate-all-around (GAA) transistors along with backside power delivery, which it calls Super Power Rail architecture. TSMC <a href=\"https:\/\/pr.tsmc.com\/english\/news\/3136\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> A16 will offer 8\u201310% more performance than N2P at the same power or enable a 15\u201320% reduction in power requirements with the same performance. It will also feature a 1.1x increase in density.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSMC has announced a new process for 2026 that seems to be a direct attack on Intel. As we all know, Intel\u2019s first Angstrom node is Intel 20A, to be followed by Intel 18A. In a move reminiscent of a disposable razor commercial, TSMC has announced a new process called \u201cA16\u201d for 2026\u2014which, as you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}