FOUNDRY / LOGIC

Foundry process timeline

Compare when major foundry process nodes moved from announcement to production on one normalized timeline.

“Not who announced first—but when did each process enter a real production stage?”

7companies

34verified milestones

2004–2028coverage

STATUS SHAPE

Shape, line style and text encode event status.

AnnouncedDevelopedSamplingRisk prod.Mass prod.ShippedTarget

FAMILY COLOR

The same color marks a curated comparison cohort across companies—not physical equivalence.

Mature planar / 20–90nm classFinFET 10–22nm class7nm-class logic5nm / Intel 4 class3nm / Intel 3 class2nm / 18A-class GAAPost-2nm roadmap

41 milestones7 companies selected

YEAR

20042006200820102012201420162018202020222024202620282029

TSMC11

Samsung8

UMC4

SMIC4

GlobalFoundries4

Rapidus5

Intel5

DATA NOTEOpen an event for its source and date precision. Month, period and year records are plotted as uncertainty bands; future targets use dashed styling.

Data as of 2026.07.15

Read status and evidence before names.

Node names do not represent identical physical dimensions or equivalent PPA across foundries. The timeline preserves each company’s names while normalizing announcement, development, sampling, risk production, mass production and shipment.

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