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

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 a transistor.

Initial research

• At the 2016 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), researchers from CEA-Leti presented a paper detailing the architecture for a possible 5 nm node. The researchers presented their functional vertically stacked gate-all-around (GAA) silicon NW/NS (NanoWire/NanoSheet) MOSFETs. GAA NW transistors are a highly promising candidate to succeed FinFETs as the drive current can be optimized by vertically stacking multiple horizontal nanowires.

Industry

Preliminary Data! Information presented in this article deal with future products, data, features, and specifications that have yet to be finalized, announced, or released. Information may be incomplete and can change by final release.

Process Name
1st Production
Lithography	Lithography
	Immersion
	Exposure
Wafer	Type
	Size
Transistor	Type
	Voltage
Fin	Pitch
	Width
	Height
Gate Length (Lg)
Contacted Gate Pitch (CPP)
Minimum Metal Pitch (MMP)
SRAM bitcell	High-Perf (HP)
	High-Density (HD)
	Low-Voltage (LV)
DRAM bitcell	eDRAM

Intel		TSMC		GlobalFoundries		Samsung
P1278? (CPU), P1279? (SoC)
EUV		193 nm		EUV		EUV
		Yes				Yes
SE		LELELELE		SE		SE
Bulk		Bulk		Bulk		Bulk
300 nm		300 nm		300 nm		300 nm
		FinFET		FinFET		GAA
Value	10 nm Δ	Value	10 nm Δ	Value	10 nm Δ	Value	7 nm Δ
						N/A
		~44 nm	0.81x
		~32 nm	0.84x

Samsung

On May 24 2017 Samsung announced they will be switching to a transistor they call Multi-Bridge-Channel FET (MBCFET), an extension of a Gate-all-around (GAA) FET. This is planned for somewhere around the 5nm node but the exact timeline or specification is currently unknown.

5 nm Microprocessors

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5 nm Microarchitectures

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References

• TSMC, Estimated at TSMC Technology Symposium, San Jose, March 15, 2017