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Samsung Plans to Make "5nm" Chips Starting in 2019-2020

Accepted submission by takyon at 2018-07-09 05:20:39
Techonomics

Samsung is preparing to manufacture 7LPP and 5LPE process ARM chips [theregister.co.uk]:

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 [theregister.co.uk]: "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 [anandtech.com].

Previously: Samsung Roadmap Includes "5nm", "4nm" and "3nm" Manufacturing Nodes [soylentnews.org]

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


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