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The 5 nanometer (5 nm or 50 Å) lithography process is a technology node semiconductor manufacturing process following the 7 nm process node. Commercial integrated circuit manufacturing using 5 nm process is set to begin sometimes around 2020.

The term "5 nm" is simply a commercial name for a generation of a certain size and its technology, and does not represent any geometry of the transistor.

Industry

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Intel

In May of 2017, Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group Director, Mark Bohr, confirmed that Intel was already started researching their 5 nm node as their 7nm was already in development phase.

TSMC

The TSMC 5nm node uses a FinFET transistor like their 7nm process, but it makes more extensive use of EUVL. This provides a transistor density improvement of 30%-80%, and a reduction in transistor variability. The process will provide a 15% speed improvement or a 30% reduction in power compared to their standard 7nm process.

Common Platform Alliance Paper

In a joint paper by the Common Platform (IBM, GlobalFoundries, Samsung) a 5nm node was proposed at the 2017 VLSI Symposium. The paper presents a new horizontally stacked sheet gate-all-around (GAA) FET with good properties which can be a good candidate for the replacement of FinFET at the 5nm node. The paper reports transistors with an aggressive L_g of 12 nm and a contacted poly pitch of 48 nm.

5 nm Microprocessors

• PEZY
  • PEZY-SC4

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5 nm Microarchitectures

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References

• TSMC, Estimated at TSMC Technology Symposium, San Jose, March 15, 2017
• Stacked Nanosheet Gate-All-Around Transistor to Enable Scaling Beyond FinFET, 2017 Symposium on VLSI Techonlogy / Circuits