The production technology for CMOS silicon-chip semiconductors is crucial to Taiwan's most important industrial profit base, which is why in 2003 TSMC will launch a 90-nanometer-line-width process, and the next goal is to launch a 65-nanometer process in 2005. It is predicted that this technology's physical limit of 9 nanometers will be reached within the next 15 to 20 years.
因為 CMOS 矽晶片半導體製程，是台灣最重要的產業利基所繫，台積電在二○○三年將可推出線寬僅九十奈米的製程，下一個目標是在二○○五年推出「六五奈米」製程，估計未來十五到二十年內可以達到九奈米的極限。