From 3 to 7 December will take place the next conference International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). The highlight of the program will be the reports of TSMC, IBM, Globalfoundries and Samsung companies, dedicated to the development of 7-nm process. Intel, was eliminated from the competition on the introduction of advanced process technology. Then it will have to be content with the role of catch-up, because today the progress in the semiconductor industry are moving to SoC manufacturers' phones. " However, Intel company promises to start producing 10-nm SoC for by LG, designed so that it can still surprise us.
Step gate transistors Intel within the 10-nm process technology promises to go down to 56 nm. According to preliminary data, in December, TSMC company talk about the 7-nm process technology, in which the step portions with metallization will be reduced to 36 nm, and the alternation of zones between the gates (polycrystalline silicon paste) reduced to 44/48 nm. Roughly speaking, this step is the same between neighboring gate transistors. In fact, the market will offer the best process technology for the production of semiconductors, than be able to offer the former industry leader - Intel company.
Judging by the documents prepared, and a half years, developers will be able to produce chips using three different 7-nm process technology. Two of them will only use immersion lithography using 193-nm scanners - it will process technologies TSMC and GlobalFoundries companies, and the third - a version of GlobalFoundries and Samsung, with the use of EUV scanners. It will be a difficult choice, because the main competitors will come closer to each other in the ability to produce advanced chips and there will be few. Related Products :
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