GlobalFoundries company accepted the production of single-chip systems with 28 nm for Rockchip company . It is noted that the production will be an important HKMG technology, involving the use of materials with a dielectric constant greater than that of silicon dioxide.
In particular, Rockchip gave GlobalFoundries orders for the release of SoC models RK3188 and RK3168, including computational core microarchitecture ARM Cortex-A9. Solutions are focused on applications in tablet devices and are characterized by high energy efficiency.
Rockchip processors are widely used in low-cost tablets mainly of Chinese origin. Test samples of the designated SoC OEM-manufacturers started to get in the beginning of this year, GlobalFoundries is currently preparing to begin mass products production .