Reported that TSMC has entered mass production system by 3nm process, will 2nm process be deployed around 2025?

It is reported that TSMC, which produces the ' Apple Silicon ' series in partnership with Apple, has set up a system to mass-produce chips with N3 node, which is a 3nm process, in the latter half of 2022. In addition, TSMC has revealed that mass production by N2 node, which is a 2nm process, will be carried out by 2026.

TSMC on track to move 3nm process to volume production in 2H22
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20220415PD212.html

TSMC on Track to Start 3nm Chip Production in Second Half of This Year --MacRumors
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/15/tsmc-to-start-3nm-chip-production-2h22/

TSMC: 2nm Chips Arriving in 2026 | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-2nm-chips-to-be-available-in-2026

According to hardware-related news site DigiTimes Asia, TSMC plans to produce 30,000 to 35,000 chips a month on N3 nodes. 'We believe that N3 nodes will be driven by both high performance computing and smartphones,' TSMC CEO Wei said in a conference call on April 14, 2022. DigiTimes Asia reports.

In April 2021, CEO Wei declared that 'mass production of the 3nm process will be carried out in 2022', which means that TSMC has set up the mass production system as planned due to the shortage of semiconductors and the corona wreck.

TSMC's next-generation 5nm process & 3nm process is scheduled to start mass production in 2022, and 2nm process is also under research and development --GIGAZINE

Way CEO also revealed that the N2 node is a technology that relies on Gate All Around (GAA) technology rather than FinFET . According to CEO Way, risk production of N2 nodes will be carried out at the end of 2024, and mass production of N2 nodes will be set up toward the end of 2025. In other words, N2 node chips will be on the market around 2026.

'TSMC is taking a fairly cautious approach to the progress of N3 and N2 nodes,' said Tom's Hardware, a hardware news site. While TSMC says it will deploy N2 nodes with GAA technology in 2025, TSMC's competitor Samsung will produce chips in 2022 with '3GAE nodes' that use GAA technology in the 3nm process. I am planning to do so. In addition, Intel announced in 2024 that it will mass-produce with 'Intel 20A node' equipped with GAA FET.

Intel announces partnership with Qualcomm to manufacture new chips, reveals roadmap to 2025-GIGAZINE

Since GAA technology is a developing technology, it can be said that the risk is higher than that of FinFET, which is undergoing technological development. Tom's Hardware said, '2025 is just the sixth year we have been using the EUV lithography equipment used by TSMC. That is, TSMC believes that FinFETs will work for the next few years until 2025 and takes the risk of GAA technology. Will not try to adopt. '