Samsung presented these new technology offerings at the Samsung Foundry Forum to foundry customers and partners. The event was held at its Device Solutions America headquarters today, where the company elaborated on the details of new technology offerings including 14LPU and 10LPU.
Samsung’s fourth-generation 14nm process technology, 14LPU, delivers higher performance at the same power and design rules compared to its third-generation 14nm process (14LPC). 14LPU will be optimally suited for high-performance and compute-intensive applications.
Samsung’s third-generation 10nm process, 10LPU, will provide area reduction compared to its previous generations (10LPE and 10LPP). Due to limitations of current lithography technologies, 10LPU is expected to be the most cost-effective cutting-edge process technology in the industry. Together with the second-generation 10nm process (10LPP) that offers an extra performance boost from 10LPE, 10LPU is positioned to meet the needs of an extended range of applications that can benefit from the advanced 10nm process.
On top of the new process offerings,
Samsung also updated its 7nm EUV process development status and showcased its 7nm EUV wafer.
What does this mean for us?
Well, despite the fact that Samsung’s mobile business is,going up in smoke at the moment. They still have quite a large sway in the Silicon manufacturing business, being the leader of the 14nm node at the moment. They’re rumoured to be maybe looking into working with AMD, have been dabbling in working with Nvidia and have even been partnered in some aspects with Intel so it’s not impossible that this could maybe cross over or, on the flip side, widen the competition. Maybe we'll be surprised where these crop up? Who knows, it’s just speculation at this point as we won’t know likely find out more on where these little guys will be heading until their designer kits are available in the second quarter of 2017. As you can imagine these things are usually kept very close to the chest, but these things have happened before.
In other Samsung news, upon releasing this new information, customers and partners a like were given a chance to look at their still very much in development 7nm EUV Wafer process, rumoured to be given a bigger update in 2017. A mind boggling size but so we’re told, will one day be commonplace in consumer products. Bring on the future.
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