
However Samsung had not expected to get to get ASML’s EUV equipment for the 5nm line installed until the end of June, so the process is at a very early stage.
It had not been thought that Samsung would be in volume production on 5nm until the end of this year and Qualcomm’s latest mobile chip-sets Snapdragon 875G and the Snapdragon 735G chipsets aren’t due on the market till 2021.
TSMC is in mass production of its version of a 5nm process running wafers for Apple’s latest processors.