Significats de nanometer chips en anglès

Intel already sells 45 nanometer chips and AMD has been struggling to catch up.

Keitel said that Qualcomm is now ramping up production of 28 nanometer chips with four different manufacturing companies.

Swan also said Intel was "well down the engineering path" for even more advanced 5- nanometer chips.

Twenty-eight nanometer chips have transistor features measuring 28 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, and are contract manufacturers' newest technology.

Foundries, or contract chip manufacturers, have been investing to ramp up capacity to make latest-generation 28 nanometer chips, currently in high demand.

The plant will create as many as 1,600 jobs and produce the most sophisticated 5 nanometer chips, TSMC said in a statement.