These are exciting times for the Mobility industry. Hybrid and electrical vehicles are growing in popularity in response to environmental regulations and governmental policy. The “connected car” is seamlessly taking over our “connected life.” The race is on for fully autonomous vehicles, with carmakers offering ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) features that reduce accidents and casualties.
Electronic components drive 80% of today’s automotive innovation. Intelligence, connectivity, sensing and control applications are evolving to keep pace with the growing complexity in “Safer, Smarter, and Greener” vehicle design. Every new application requires more semiconductors, constantly increasing the overall silicon content in today’s advanced vehicles.
Backed by proven high-volume manufacturing, TSMC’s Automotive Platform provides a comprehensive spectrum of technologies and services to meet the automotive industry’s unique semiconductor challenges.
For Advanced Logic technologies, TSMC introduced its N3 Auto Early (N3AE) program providing automotive process design kits (PDKs) to enable early design start before the technology is auto-ready. N3AE was introduced in 2023 and migrated to N3A with the V0.9 PDK released in 2024. In addition, customers have also successfully qualified automotive products for automotive applications on TSMC’s N7A and N5A technologies, and these products entered volume production for automotive OEMs in 2023 and 2025, respectively.
Advanced Specialty technologies for compute-intensive ADAS applications include:
- RF technologies for 5G connectivity and millimeter wave (mmWave) radar
- Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies for next-generation micro-controller unit (MCU) and artificial intelligence (AI) memory
- CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) technologies for high sensitivity CMOS image/light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors
- BCD technologies for power-management ICs (PMIC)
TSMC validates all its Automotive Platform process technologies using AEC-Q100 specifications. To support customer's Automotive design and production, TSMC offers comprehensive Automotive IP ecosystems and Automotive Service Packages for enhanced manufacturing.
