Figure 1: Will 7nm be a game changer for TSMC? (Source:Wikipedia)
2018 will be remembered as a significant year in TSMC’s (TSM) corporate history. Founder Morris Chang retired on June 5 after leading the company for 31 years and pioneering the foundry business model that changed the landscape of the semiconductor industry forever. But more significantly the Taiwanese foundry could overtake integrated chip-making rivals in the mobile and logic markets for the first time with its 7 nanometres (nm) FinFet manufacturing process. Up until now integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) like Intel