Samsung's new 8nm chips (Exynos ?)

Samsung Electronics Co., the South Korean technology company best known for its smartphones and televisions, has taken the title of world's largest chip maker by revenue, knocking Intel Corp. from a perch it held for nearly a quarter-century.
Samsung's semiconductor unit, whose fortunes come largely from selling memory chips used in mobile devices, delivered second-quarter sales of $15.7 billion and operating profit of $7.1 billion. Intel, which dominates the calculating engines known as microprocessors, reported quarterly revenue of $14.8 billion and operating profit of $3.8 billion.

Samsung is ready to produce 8nm chips for mainstream use.



Samsung Electronics has shared that it is ready to begin production using an 8nm manufacturing process . Up to 10% improvements in power consumption and as much as a 10% reduction in area can be achieved.
In order to be the first to produce 8LPP (Low Power Plus) chips, Samsung is using a nearly identical process to how current 10nm chips are being produced. However, a planned switch to an extreme ultra violet (EUV) process is needed in order to step down to 7nm.
Vice President of Foundry Marketing Ryan Lee states that "with the qualification completed three months ahead of schedule, we have commenced 8LPP production". At the beginning of 2017, Samsung was originally planning to launch 8nm manufacturing in the first quarter of 2018.
Even though Samsung is first out of the gate for 8nm, it is going to face some tough competition in the upcoming year.Global foundaries is on track to launch its 7nm process in the first half of 2018 and ramp up production during the second half. Using a 7nm process, GlobalFoundries is claiming up to a 40% power reduction compared to 14nm chips.
Meanwhile, Intel is still looking to target the 10nm manufacturing process for its next generation of Cannon Lake processors followed by a refined 10nm architecture for Ice lake CPUs. AMD has a partnership with GlobalFoundries for chip production, so it may be able to sneak in a die shrink sooner than Intel has plans for.

Source: techspot .com

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Names of mini militia guns

Image
Here's a list of names of some popular mini militia guns 1.EMP This weapon is also known as the electric gun. Shoots a large EMP ball that travels a distance and electrifies anyone who is caught in it. It can be used to terminate proxy mines. When they are electrified, their rocket boots will not work for about 30 seconds. However, it does not do damage. 2.LASER GUN  The laser is great long range gun .it offfers good zoom. This laser does not deal great amounts of damage.However, its fire rate is continuous. Use it as a long range weapon, and do not hesitate to fire where you think the enemy is. It may be useful against enemies trying to rush. Stay behind covers, do not try to dodge the laser. 3.FLAMETHROWER Good for damaging multiple people at once. You will take damage if you are next to a wall and fire at it. Penetrates riot shields. 4.UZI The Uzi is one of the default weapons in the game, so the player doesn't need to buy...
Read more

Top 10 Games To Play On Android

Asphalt 8: Airborne or Asphalt: Xtreme Price: Free with in-app purchases When it comes to racing games without an up-front price tag, Gameloft has real winenrs with Asphalt Xtreme and Asphalt 8: Airborne. The former is an offroad style racer with a variety of tracks, online multiplayer, and various vehicles that you can unlock. Asphalt 8: Airborne is an older game, but has a metric ton of content for you to play through. It also has online multiplayer and other activities to play. These are both very solid racing games considering their free price tag, but their in-app purchase strategy is a little aggressive. They’re great experiences. They're both excellent free Android games. Critical Ops Price: Free with in-app purchases Critical Ops is among the newer generation of first person shooters and it’s one of the best. In this title, you’ll battle terrorists in a variety of urban-oriented levels or you can play as the terrorists if you want to. It has a s...
Read more

Hackerrank vector erase question solution in C++

Here's the solution to Hackerrank's vector erase question.The code is optimised and pass all test result #include   < cmath > #include   < cstdio > #include   < vector > #include   < iostream > #include   < algorithm > using   namespace   std ; int   main ()   { int   size , no ;   cin >> size ;   vector < int > v1 ;   for ( int   i = 0 ; i < size ; i ++)   { cin >> no ;    v1 . push_back ( no );   }   int   query1 ;   cin >> query1 ;   query1 = query1 - 1 ;   v1 . erase ( v1 . begin ()+ query1 );   int   pos1 , pos2 ;   cin >> pos1 >> pos2 ;   v1 . erase ( v1 . begin ()+ pos1 - 1 , v1 . begin ()+ pos2 - 1 );   cout << v1 . size ()<< endl ;   for ( int   i = 0 ; i < v1 . size (); i ++)   {  ...
Read more