Editorial Team
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TSMC Targets 2028 A14 Production as Samsung Reworks Its 1.4nm Timeline
TSMC says A14 will enter production in 2028, one year before Samsung Electronics’ stated SF1.4 target. But the comparison is a contest of future manufacturing plans: TSMC’s performance and scale figures are projections, while Samsung has redirected attention to stabilizing 2nm before returning to 1.4nm.
- TSMC’s A14 production target is 2028; Samsung Electronics says its SF1.4 target is 2029.
- Neither timetable measures a shipping 1.4nm-class chip, and TSMC’s stated performance gains are forecasts against its 2nm process.
- Samsung’s delayed 1.4nm schedule is paired with a push to stabilize 2nm, while TSMC’s scale promise depends on both wafer output and constrained advanced packaging.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is a dedicated chip foundry: it manufactures chips designed by customers rather than selling competing chip designs of its own. The company says its next leading logic process, A14, is on track for production in 2028—one year ahead of Samsung Electronics’ Foundry business. Samsung Foundry had shipments of new 2nm products in the fourth quarter of 2025, an industry estimate said, and Samsung has set a 2029 SF1.4 goal.
That is an important roadmap gap, not a measured manufacturing lead. Both processes remain future products. The commercial question is whether TSMC can turn A14’s projected transistor gains into a broad ramp while Samsung’s decision to concentrate on its nearer 2nm generation produces a more competitive base for its own next node.
TSMC company-reported forecasts for A14 versus N2: up to 15% faster at the same power, up to 30% lower power at the same speed, and more than a 20% logic-density increase. Source: TSMC A14 Technology.
TSMC’s A14 case is a production and scale claim
TSMC describes A14 as the second generation of its nanosheet-transistor technology. Its technology page says A14 is on track for 2028 production and forecasts, versus N2, up to 15% more speed at the same power, up to 30% lower power at the same speed, and more than 20% higher logic density. These are TSMC forecasts, not results from independently tested, shipping chips.
The company said in its 2025 A14 announcement that development was ahead of schedule on yield. It also put N2 into volume production in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the A14 technology page. That record makes N2 the relevant baseline for A14’s claimed gains; it does not establish A14 yield or customer demand three years before the target date.
