The last two months TSMC company says a lot about the preparation for the introduction of 16-nm manufacturing semiconductors with FinFET transistors. The first version of the technical process - 16FF - passed all validation phase, whereas the improved second version - 16FF + - complete the final phase of checks in the current month.
Samsung will begin mass production of the first 14-nm FinFET semiconductors and it will happen no later than the second quarter of 2015. Delays can occur during the development of the 14-nm process technology by GlobalFoundries company, which licenses the technology from Samsung, but the South Korean manufacturer promises to withstand voiced earlier deadlines.
Thus, it is believed that TSMC company yield rate of 20 nm-class solutions for about 80%. Because the 16-nm FinFET + process - is a slightly modified copy of the 20-nm process technology, yield solutions to exceed 90%. Precisely, it concerns the experience with the release of the traditional test products - array SRAM.
Samsung Company, under some suspicion, since the beginning of this year when it launched a pilot production of 14-nm-making, and could not achieve the level of chip yield is higher than 30-35%. Once again, without specifying the capacity of experienced SRAM-Array .
Based on the above, many analysts believe that TSMC will be able to intercept most of the orders for the solutions of class 10 nm. But there is another view, which we have more confidence, namely: Samsung will start the first edition FinFET production 10 nm class (14 nm), but by the end of the year .