Computing · 2020

5 nm process

Over 170 million transistors per square millimeter.

TSMC's N5 entered volume production in 2020 for Apple's A14. It used EUV extensively and roughly doubled density over 7 nm.

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Transistors per microprocessor Latest: 58.2B transistors (2021) Source: Our World in Data

ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)