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Five nanometre CMOS technology

With the help of extreme-ultraviolet lithography and high-mobility-channel fin field-effect transistors, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company deliver their latest CMOS platform for use in mobile and high-performance computing applications.

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Fig. 1: The development of CMOS technology platforms from TSMC.

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Hiramoto, T. Five nanometre CMOS technology. Nat Electron 2, 557–558 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-019-0343-x

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