On October 7, Samsung Electronics announced on Wednesday local time that the company's new generation of 3-nanometer chip manufacturing technology will be postponed to 2022. At the same time, it said that more advanced 2-nanometer chip manufacturing technology will be available in 2025 < p > Samsung had planned to start producing chip products with faster processing speed and higher energy efficiency with 3-nm process this year. On Wednesday, the company said at the Samsung foundry forum that it is very difficult to turn to new manufacturing technology, and the 3-nm process chip will be listed in the first half of 2022 < p > this means that Samsung customers will not be able to use this cutting-edge technology until next year. Samsung's customers include Qualcomm, a mobile phone chip design company, IBM, a server manufacturer, and Samsung's own products < p > but the good news is that Samsung announced that it will realize 2-nanometer chip manufacturing technology in the second half of 2025. Samsung said that this will make the chip continue to move forward in performance, energy efficiency and miniaturization of electronic products < p > TSMC also announced in August this year to postpone the launch of 3-nanometer chip manufacturing technology. The delay in this plan eased the pressure on Intel. At present, Intel is launching its own OEM business to regain the market share taken away by TSMC and Samsung < p > the chip business is under great pressure. With the continuous growth of personal computer sales, the popularity of smart phones and the continuous rise of online services in data centers, the market demand for chips has exceeded the production capacity. The global chip shortage affects the sales of personal computers, game consoles, automobiles and other products that rely on the supply chain of electronic products < p > Shawn Han, senior vice president of Samsung OEM division, said that the shortage of chips will not be alleviated until 2022. He said, "although we are investing and other OEM manufacturers are also increasing production capacity, in our opinion, this situation will continue for another six to nine months." < / P > < p > the process of turning to a new generation of chip manufacturing technology is very complex. A single chip consists of billions of transistors smaller than dust. Chip factories need to etch circuit patterns on silicon wafers, which takes dozens of steps and months < p > the progress of chip manufacturing technology stems from the continuous miniaturization of transistors, which can compress more transistors on the chip, so as to improve processing speed and reduce power consumption. Samsung's new generation chip manufacturing technology 3gae adopts a technology called "all surround gate transistor" (GAA) < p > Samsung expects to launch more mature 3gap chip products by 2023 and achieve high output at the same time. By 2025, Samsung plans to shift to the more advanced 2-nanometer chip manufacturing technology 2gap < p > as chips become more and more complex, they usually become more and more expensive, which is why many customers insist on using chips produced by older and cheaper manufacturing processes of companies such as lattice core < p > however, Samsung believes that it can reduce the cost of new manufacturing technology. Moonsoo Kang, head of Samsung Electronics OEM strategy team, said: "although GAA is a difficult technology, we will still strive to reduce the cost of a single transistor." "this trend will continue." (Chenchen) < / P > < p >