The South Korean company Samsung is the largest contract manufacturer of chips - in particular, not so long ago it produced processors for mobile devices, Apple, and only in the production A8 processor orders were distributed in the ratio of "30:70" in favor of TSMC. Representatives of Samsung, as according to the publication ZDNet, expressed their willingness to significantly increase revenue profile units after the beginning of the supply 14-nm processors for customers type Apple, Qualcomm and AMD. It is believed that the release of such processors will begin at the end of this year, but about serial deliveries too early to speak. Processor Apple's called A9 will be released on 14-nanometer technology, will acquire "three-dimensional transistors" FinFET.
Samples of 14-nm products Samsung showed in one of the passing this week specialized activities. They posed in front of visitors, not only in the composition of the silicon wafer, but also as a working sample of a mobile processor that can decode and play back high-definition video on the screen connected via a special board monitor. Perhaps it was its own processor Samsung, as the company itself provides a chips for smartphones, using models of Qualcomm products .
Samsung was preparing for the development of 14-nm technology since 2012. Issued on 14-nm technology using FinFET chips consume 35% less energy compared to 20-nm products have a 20% higher speed transistors and occupy 15% less space.
I would like to go back to the mention AMD as a customer of Samsung. Until now, AMD gets its chips from GlobalFoundries and TSMC, and the prospects for the introduction of 14-nm technology still quite blurry. Most likely, AMD will be the Samsung customer indirectly as GlobalFoundries will develop 14-nm process technology with FinFET in collaboration with Samsung. This was openly stated this week. Mass production of the first 14-nm products at the facilities of GlobalFoundries and Samsung will begin next year, but it will chip with low power consumption, and to productive solutions it comes later. Related Products :
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