Korean industry giant Samsung, is the first to mass-produce SoC prducts using Samsung 10nm FinFET Technology in the market. Samsung was also the first company to mass produce a FinFET mobile application processor in Jan. 2015.
According to Techspot, Samsung is in a deal with QualComm to exclusively manufacture Snapdragon 830 processors using Samsung 10nm process. As said by the Executive Vice President and Head of Foundry Business of Samsung Electronics, Jong Shik Yoon, that it demonstrates the company's leadership in processing technology and will continue efforts to innovate scaling technologies and provide total solutions to customers.
The Samsung 10nm process is necessary to build an advanced #d transistor structure which is consider an improvement from the previous 14nm. The Samsung 10nm enables for a better performance of up to 27 percent and 40 percent lower power consumption compared to the 14nm.
This means that having Samsung 10nm would make for faster and more powerful devices with longer battery life. The Samsung 10nm process also allows 30 percent more chips per wafer.
The devices that use the first generation Samsung 10nm process will start to be seen early 2017. The second-gen which features performance boost capability to appear second half of 2017.
As added report, Phys Org shared that Samsung plans to continue their leadership with wide variety of processes to meet the demands of various applications. Close collaboration with partners, Samsung plans to develop 10nm foundry ecosystems which includes flow verifications, IPs and libraries.
The PDK (Production Design Kits) and IP Design Kits are already available for design starts. This technology is believed to appear on Samsung S8 which is rumored to be released in 2017.
The Samsung S8 should be a good device to save the tarnished reputation of Samsung because of the Samsung Note 7 issue. it was big disaster for a tech giant as Samsung. With the Samsung S8 having the Samsung 10nm, it should perform well enough to forget about the recent scandal.
