Surprisingly, until the end of May in the hands of ARM developers will be a fully working 10-nm processor cores on the new Artemis. This is despite the fact that TSMC company will produce ARM customers 10-nm processors : it will begin mass production using these technological standards in the second half of this year. By the way, a year ago it was expected that Artemis core appear as part of the production of 16-nm , but in fact it turned out that they would be 10 nm .
As it became known from ARM publications, digital design 10-nm quad-core assembly Artemis and some integrated graphics core Mali has been sent to TSMC company as early as December last year. Experienced working in silicon chip company expects to get your hands on in the coming weeks. After that, we should expect a full test of the first 10-nm cores incarnation on the ARM architecture. This is necessary both to debug 10-nm production equipment company TSMC, and for designers ARM. The company must demonstrate willingness to customers a new product and its capabilities, ideally - the best possible.
Note designing chips with 10-nanometer rules will be about six times more expensive than the design 28-nm solutions. If an average of 28-nm project cost $ 5.5 million., The 10-nm project will cost about $ 32.5 million. This is due to the increased number of repetitions in the development of sites, the increased machine time, and other expenses.
Availability of digital design allows even before the release of decision in silicon evaluate the potential development. Thus, the density of elements arrangement on the chip increased by 2.1-fold when compared to 10-nanometer chip 16 nm (FinFET +). In the case the same consumption of 10-nm core are in the 11-12% performance 16-nm cores. If the frequency of making the same, the intake core 10 nm will be 30% less than 16 nm.
In direct comparison with cores Cortex A72 (16FF +) early kernel Artemis show slightly smaller frequency potential, but this will be corrected in the future.
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