Samsung Announces 11nm LPP and 7nm LPP With EUV Technology
Samsung announced it has added 11-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology (11LPP, Low Power Plus) to its advanced foundry process portfolio. Through further scaling from the earlier 14LPP process, 11LPP delivers up to 15 percent higher performance and up to 10 percent chip area reduction with the same power consumption.
In addition to the 10nm FinFET process for mobile processors in premium flagship smartphones, the company expects its 11nm process to bring differentiated value to mid- to high-end smartphones. The new process technology is scheduled to be ready for production in the first half of 2018. Samsung also confirmed that development of 7LPP with EUV (extreme ultra violet) lithography technology is on schedule, targeting its initial production in the second half of 2018.
Since 2014, Samsung has processed close to 200,000 wafers with EUV lithography technology and, building on its experience, has recently seen visible results in process development such as achieving 80 percent yield for 256 megabit (Mb) SRAM (static random-access memory).
"Samsung has added the 11nm process to our roadmap to offer advanced options for various applications," said Ryan Lee, Vice President and Head of Foundry Marketing at Samsung Electronics. "Through this, Samsung has completed a comprehensive process roadmap spanning from 14nm to 11nm, 10nm, 8nm, and 7nm in the next three years."
Details of the recent update to Samsung's foundry roadmap, including 11LPP availability and 7nm EUV development, will be elaborated at the Samsung Foundry Forum Japan on September 15, 2017, in Tokyo. The Samsung Foundry Forum was held in the United States and South Korea earlier this year, sharing Samsung's cutting-edge process technologies with global customers and partners.
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those are some good morning news, and would be much better when they translate into a cost cut....fat chance HA HA

EUV at 80% yield, and still got almost 8 month to perfect it. i will take it as a good news and hope for the best at this point.
With the increasing complexity of the process, it's getting more expensive too. I doubt it will get more cheap from now on, but at least the performance will keep improving.
Can't wait for GPU's and CPU's to move again (CPU's finally, as Intel have been at snail pace).
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I'm not really a smartphone enthusiast, always pushing purchasing a new phone as far as I can and only going for mid-range phones, so these news aren't of particular interest to me. If they can develop the process further from low power to high power PC/server grade component manufacturing, then sure. Intel has been so busy only developing its stock owners' wallets that somebody else needs to pick up the slack.
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Progress is good. I am eagerly awaiting GloFlo and AMD to announce they are able to mass produce 7nm chips.
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It does not just affect mobile chips, AMD also gonna benefit from 7nm EUV technology because of the alliance of SAMSUNG, IBM, GLOBAL FOUNDRIES and AMD.
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those are some good morning news, and would be much better when they translate into a cost cut....fat chance HA HA
EUV at 80% yield, and still got almost 8 month to perfect it. i will take it as a good news and hope for the best at this point.