Currently, almost all the top-end smartphones are packed with chips based on a 7nm process node. But we know TSMC’s 5nm chips will come in late 2019 or early 2020. This simply means, in a couple of years, the mobile industry will enter a new era, where everything will be done faster and more productive. But this is not the limit. In August, we learned the Taiwanese semiconductor company invested $19 billion to build a 3nm wafer fab. Today, according to the Taiwanese ‘Economic Daily’ report, TSMC’s 3-nanometer factory passed the environmental assessment. According to the original scheduling, the world’s…