In February, Samsung unveiled its latest FinFET 10-nanometer engraving process before declaring, a few days later, that its next step would be 5 nanometer engraving. Today, the company confirmed that mass production of its first 10-nm-engraved processors would start at the end of 2016.
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Future Exynos processors engraved in 10 nanometers.
At the 2015 International Solid-State Circuits conference in San Francisco, Samsung unveiled its first 300mm semiconductor plate engraved with this new technology, leaving no doubt that its 10 nanometer chip manufacturing process is now finalized.
Officialized just before the announcement of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, the Exynos 7420 processor engraved in 14 nanometers that is found at the heart of the firm’s last two flagships offers 20% more performance and consumes 30 to 35% less energy than a processor engraved in 20 nm. With Samsung’s future 10-nm chips, the performance-to-energy consumption ratio will be further improved significantly.
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A process of engraving that will of course be found in the future high-end and wearable mobiles of the firm but not only. As you already know, Samsung will produce the iPhone 6S processor that will be engraved in 14 nanometers. And thanks to its new 10 nanometer engraving process, the Korean once again has every chance of winning this market in 2016 and 2017, as Handel Jones, director of International Business Strategies, seems to think.
In addition, for now, Samsung is well ahead of its competitors since TMSC is only about to switch to a 16 nanometer engraving while Intel, which recently unveiled its latest chips in 14 nm, has not yet commented on its plans for the 10 nm. Finally, the icing on the cake, the chips engraved in 10 nm would be significantly less expensive than those engraved in 14 nm.
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