Facility
TSMC Fab 18 (Tainan) — N3/N4 Gigafab
TSMC Fab 18, Southern Taiwan Science Park, Tainan — an 8-phase gigafab covering approximately 160,000 square meters (22 soccer fields). Primary production: N3 (3nm) and N4 (4nm EUV) nodes. Capacity: 150,000–160,000 wafer starts per month (wspm). This is the single most consequential industrial building on Earth for AI hardware — every NVIDIA H100, H200, and Blackwell GPU compute die was manufactured here. Fab 18 is located in an active seismic zone. April 3, 2024: M7.4 earthquake (Hualien) caused temporary disruptions to cleanroom operations; estimated 2–3 weeks partial recovery. December 2025: M7.0 earthquake — Taiwan's strongest in 27 years — Fab 18 escaped with minimal disruption due to extraordinary engineering safeguards. Source: https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/major-79-earthquake-strikes-taiwan
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AI Training GPU (H100/H200/B200 class) →
100% of global production
manufactured
Advanced Logic Chips (CPU/SoC ≤5nm) →
90% of global production
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Advanced Logic Wafer (TSMC N3/N4) →
90% of global production
manufactured
AI Training GPU (H100/H200/B200 class) →
88% of global production
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AI Training GPU (H100/H200/B200 class) →
10% of global production
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