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It seems that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is not only having problems with its manufacturing node at 7 nm, since now the problems seem to have also extended to the manufacturing node at 16 nm, a node still very much alive but not producing enough chips to satisfy the demand. What is happening with TSMC? The problems that TSMC is having to meet the demand for 7 nm chips is well known, and although the company has multiplied the production of these chips by three, they still do not cover all the orders they receive. And, while the company is still working on solving these supply problems that, among others, are affecting AMD, things get even more complicated because they are also beginning to suffer delays in the deliveries of the 16 nm node chips. There are also problems with the 16 nm, what happens to TSMC? It seems that at this point the manufacturing node at 16 nm would be a thing of the past, but nothing is further from the truth: it is a very live node, and many customers continue to design and manufacture products based on this lithography, given that the manufacturing process It is very mature, it works very well and they are much cheaper chips than smaller nodes, and therefore they are much more profitable. TSMC logo with background chips The fact is that, according to the source, TSMC is delaying the deliveries of these 16 nm chips to its customers because they are not manufacturing enough, so from where there is not can not be taken and are delaying many shipments. The causes of all these problems are uncertain, since TSMC has not issued any statement in this regard, at least for now. It is speculated with many different reasons, but the ones that have more weight and that make the most sense are that the company's factories have work saturation and do not give enough, or that they are still suffering the consequences of that cut of the electricity supply that They had a while ago. Another reason with which it is speculated is that they may have had contamination problems in the "clean rooms" (rooms in which not a single dust mite can enter to avoid contaminating production), because although it is difficult because they are taken Many security measures, is something that can happen. In any case, as we said the company has not issued any statement yet to explain what is happening to them, but that TSMC does not stop having problems is already a fact at this point, and this in the end is harming large-scale manufacturers such as AMD .