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Samsung is mass producing the A9 in 14nm. TSMC is mass producing in 16nm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A9 Intel
by esmi 10y ago
Samsung is mass producing the A9 in 14nm. TSMC is mass producing in 16nm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A9
Intel, Samsung and TSMC have all demonstrated their 10nm processes with TSMC expected to be the first to mass production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_nanometer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_nanometer
I believe nVidia and AMD use Samsung and TSMC as their advanced fabs which is how they stay alive. They get to keep the expensive factories off their books and the factories can use their capacity to make more than just AMD and nVidia parts keeping their lines full. At least that's the theory...