Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by martyb on Monday July 09 2018, @12:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-that-a-Cray-in-your-pocket? dept.

Samsung is preparing to manufacture 7LPP and 5LPE process ARM chips:

Samsung has said its chip foundry building Arm Cortex-A76-based processors will use 7nm process tech in the second half of the year, with 5nm product expected mid-2019 using the extreme ultra violet (EUV) lithography process.

The A76 64-bit chips will be able to pass 3GHz in clock speed. Back in May we wrote: "Arm reckoned a 3GHz 7nm A76 single core is up to 35 per cent faster than a 2.8GHz 10nm Cortex-A75, as found in Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845, when running mixed integer and floating-point math benchmarks albeit in a simulator."

[...] Samsung eventually envisages moving to a 3nm Gate-All-Round-Early (3AAE) on its process technology roadmap. Catch up, Intel, if you can.

Also at AnandTech.

Previously: Samsung Roadmap Includes "5nm", "4nm" and "3nm" Manufacturing Nodes

Related: Samsung's 10nm Chips in Mass Production, "6nm" on the Roadmap (obsolete)
Moore's Law: Not Dead? Intel Says its 10nm Chips Will Beat Samsung's
Samsung Plans a "4nm" Process


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Monday July 09 2018, @03:48PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Monday July 09 2018, @03:48PM (#704591) Journal

    Eh, dodging the metrics by tuning performance for specific tests and other trickery has been going on for a long time.

    AMD has had to roll out their own measurements to compete with Intel. For many years, Intel chips were near twice as fast at math simply because they could do a math operation every clock cycle, while the AMDs could only do it every other clock cycle. Intel chips are plain better for heavy duty math such as the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. But math isn't everything as AMD has gone to great pains to show us. Also, less need for math prowess in the CPU if most of the math is happening in the GPU.

    The sad thing is, the honest performance improvements are extremely impressive, and I can't see how they can keep delivering that kind of improvement for much longer. I mean, damn, 10 year old computers with like 45nm or 65nm die sizes have such inferior performance and power usage compared to current hardware that they are basically trash, not worth the electricity it takes to turn them on. But marketing feels they have to exaggerate anyway.

    Marketing is dumb that way. They ask for the moon, and if they actually get it, they don't appreciate it and whine for even more. They're like Viserys Targaryen.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Interesting=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Interesting' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   3