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Samsung Finished Qualification of 2nd Generation 10nm Process Technology
Samsung announced that its second generation 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology, 10LPP (Low Power Plus), has been qualified and is ready for production.
With further enhancement in 3D FinFET structure, 10LPP allows up to 10-percent higher performance or 15-percent lower power consumption compared to the first generation 10LPE (Low-Power Early) process with the same area scaling. Samsung was the first in the industry to begin mass production of system-on-chips (SoCs) products on 10LPE last October. The latest Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphones are powered by some of these SoCs.
To meet long-term demand for the 10nm process for a wide range of customers, Samsung has started installing production equipment at its newest S3-line in Hwaseong, Korea. The S3-line is expected to be ready for production by the fourth quarter of this year.
“With our successful 10LPE production experience, we have commenced production of the 10LPP to maintain our leadership in the advanced-node foundry market,” said Ryan Lee, Vice President of Foundry Marketing at Samsung Electronics. “10LPP will be one of our key process offerings for high performance mobile, computing and network applications, and Samsung will continue to offer the most advanced logic process technology.”
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#5422374 Posted on: 04/19/2017 08:25 PM
More advanced doesn't mean much if it doesn't work, and looks to be late 2018 before a desktop 10 nm Intel is due for release... if there aren't any further complications.
Intel clearly is hitting some roadblocks moving to it's 10nm (to be fair their 10nm is more advanced than Samsung's) but as long as someone is making progress it's good news.
More advanced doesn't mean much if it doesn't work, and looks to be late 2018 before a desktop 10 nm Intel is due for release... if there aren't any further complications.
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#5422393 Posted on: 04/19/2017 09:31 PM
What intel needs on 10nm is to achieve at least same frequency as now. Because their IPC bumps are not very high per generation and people are not going to "upgrade" to chip with same performance just because it eats bit less power. (except mobile devices)
While AMD delivered still very interesting chip(s) on process which clocks worse than before.
This 3~4GHz thing has some advantages on new architecture. As Zen+ IPC will improve and clock is likely to improve too.
As for AMD/nVidia skipping 10nm, it is just question of parameters of this manufacturing technology. If it proves to be good enough upgrade in energy efficiency, clock or cost, it will be used as long as 7nm will be far away.
Side note, we are getting there, limits of silicon are near...
What intel needs on 10nm is to achieve at least same frequency as now. Because their IPC bumps are not very high per generation and people are not going to "upgrade" to chip with same performance just because it eats bit less power. (except mobile devices)
While AMD delivered still very interesting chip(s) on process which clocks worse than before.
This 3~4GHz thing has some advantages on new architecture. As Zen+ IPC will improve and clock is likely to improve too.
As for AMD/nVidia skipping 10nm, it is just question of parameters of this manufacturing technology. If it proves to be good enough upgrade in energy efficiency, clock or cost, it will be used as long as 7nm will be far away.
Side note, we are getting there, limits of silicon are near...
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#5422400 Posted on: 04/19/2017 10:02 PM
They still only have a single gen out of the 16/14nm, so it would seem wasteful to drop any optimisation and jump to 10nm only to start from a scratch. Not that Nvidia wouldn't have the money for it. If 7nm is ready when they are ready to move on, it would seem like a more efficient move.
But then again, I'm not a semiconductor engineer.
It's been reported that both AMD/Nvidia are skipping 10nm.
They still only have a single gen out of the 16/14nm, so it would seem wasteful to drop any optimisation and jump to 10nm only to start from a scratch. Not that Nvidia wouldn't have the money for it. If 7nm is ready when they are ready to move on, it would seem like a more efficient move.
But then again, I'm not a semiconductor engineer.
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#5422417 Posted on: 04/19/2017 11:23 PM
Yeah, perhaps hitting that ceiling will force prices to come down. However, I have a feeling there are other technologies waiting in the wings...
Side note, we are getting there, limits of silicon are near...
Yeah, perhaps hitting that ceiling will force prices to come down. However, I have a feeling there are other technologies waiting in the wings...
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It's been reported that both AMD/Nvidia are skipping 10nm. So it seems like this is only going to apply to phone SoCs and whatnot. I am kind of glad that Samsung is pushing ahead with their fabs though. Intel clearly is hitting some roadblocks moving to it's 10nm (to be fair their 10nm is more advanced than Samsung's) but as long as someone is making progress it's good news.