AsianFin—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) said on Wednesday that a new chip manufacturing technology called "A16" will start production in the second half of 2026. 

TSMC, the world's biggest contract manufacturer of advanced computing chips and a key supplier to Nvidia and Apple, announced the news at a conference in Santa Clara, California, where TSMC executives said that makers of AI chips will likely be the first adopters of the technology rather than a smartphone maker.