North America

Universities in North America can now gain access to the TSMC University FinFET Program. This newly developed program offers advantageous pricing for TSMC FinFet technologies.

Program highlights

  • Offering the industry’s most successful FinFET technology family to universities
    • Starting with N16, N7 (including RF)
    • Tapeout and manufacturing services
  • Design collaterals for both teaching and research
    • N7 and N16 design collateral: For test chip MPW
    • N16ADFP (academic design foster package): For teaching purposes only

Access

To access the TSMC University FinFET program, please, fill in the application form and return it to ic-link.na@imec-int.com. Applications will be reviewed and approved by TSMC, after which an NDA will be shared. Access will be granted through imec’s secure data sharing platform.

Application form

Prototyping prices and MPW schedule 2026

For all MPW runs available via the TSMC schedule

Table of 2026 TSMC University FinFET prototype prices for 7nm and 16nm log and RF options
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For selected MPW runs

TSMC University FinFET program pricing table for 16nm RF miniASICs
TSMC 16nm CMOS RF FinFET Compact schedule showing MPW run dates across the months

Supported metal schemes for prototyping

N16:

  • 1P9M_2XA1XD3XE2Z_UT ALRDL
  • 1P9M_2XA1XD3XE1Z1U_UT AlRDL For RF
  • 1P10M_2XA1XD4XE2Z_UT ALRDL

N7:

  • 1P10M_1X1XA1YA4Y1Z1U (RF)
  • 1P11M_1X1XA1YA5Y2Z
  • 1P13M_1X1XA1YA5Y2YY2Z
  • 1P15M_1X1XA1YA5Y2YY2YX2R