2015 process upgrade: Samsung 14nm vs. TSMC 16nm

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At present, the development of mobile phone processors has reached a level that is not up to the limit. ARM Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 are not new architectures, and related products are on sale. In the absence of innovation in the architecture, the cost of increased performance is increased power consumption. In addition to the process upgrade, the author has not imagined any way to make the mobile phone SoC have a big improvement in a short time. Kim Ki-nam, president of Samsung Semiconductor today, announced that Samsung's 14nm FinFET process is progressing smoothly and that customers are already in production.

It is still unclear who this "customer" is. The biggest possibility is naturally Apple, because the S1 chip on Apple Watch is currently facing the pressure of power consumption. It is not surprising to use the new 14nm process. And the A9 chip on the new iPhone next year is also likely to use the 14nm process; another possibility is Qualcomm, after all, Qualcomm also signed a foundry agreement with Samsung.

Samsung claims that its 14nm FinFET process can increase performance by 20% compared to TSMC's 20nm, power consumption can be reduced by 35%, and footprint can be reduced by 15%. It is an all-round improvement. However, TSMC's 16nm FinFET industry is not vegetarian, as it is now. The mobile phone SoC market next year or the next year is likely to face a major process upgrade, so please look forward to it.

Samsung 14nm FinFET process wafer has been put into production