Almost all of last year management of TSMC company promised that the Taiwan chipmaker will be the first in the world to master mass production of 10-nm semiconductors. In fact, it turned out that Samsung was ahead of the competitor. According to analysts, several 10-nm digital projects of MediaTek company were canceled, until finally, TSMC has not started production of Helio X30 processors. This delayed the release of 10-nm solutions on TSMC lines and allowed Samsung to go ahead with the production of 10-nm SoC Samsung Exynos 8895 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 835.
In support of its advantage, Samsung last week reported that it had produced 70,000 300 mm plates with 10-nm chips. TSMC has so far not reported anything like this, although it expects to ship about 400,000 300-mm plates with 10-nm solutions before the end of the year. In the meantime, we will repeat, Samsung is better coping with the implementation of plans for the commercial release of 10-nm solutions.
According to analysts, if Samsung keeps the level of 10-nm chips at a level no lower than 70% and if you take into account the area of SoC Exynos 8895 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 approximately equal to 150 mm2, then the South Korean chip maker produced about 19.2 million mobile processors. This opens up the possibility for Samsung to soon introduce a new flagship smartphone. For individual leaks, the announcement of the Galaxy S8 may take place on March 29.
In the future, Samsung plans to consolidate its advantage over TSMC with the introduction of such technological processes as 8-nm and 6-nm. TSMC company , we recall , in addition to 7-nm and 10-nm process technology will introduce 12-nm and 22-nm process technology, as an intermediate between 28/20-nm and 10-nm process technology. Samsung company will not be exchanged for intermediate positions and will immediately go further in terms of reducing the scale of technological production norms .