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Is there much of a market for medium-detail processes? We have the desktop/server/workstation/smartphone market using the very smallest detail processes, with
by Causality1 6y ago
Is there much of a market for medium-detail processes? We have the desktop/server/workstation/smartphone market using the very smallest detail processes, with maybe some categories using the previous-generation node. Then we have the embedded market which is everything from cheap-as-dirt 350nm microcontrollers to 28nm ARM chips. Nobody really wants the five-years-ago chips, the currently 18-22nm node. They're too expensive to buy by the million and not shiny enough to compete against the newest stuff.
- ksec 6y agoThere are plenty of market for in between 28nm to 12nm node. It is simply a natural progression between Cost, Features, Performance and Economics of Chips. Especially when they are the last few nodes before you move up to EUV. A10 / T2 used in many of the Apple Appliance are 16nm, along with dozens of WiFi, Modem, Ethernet Controller, ASIC / FPGA etc. These are easily 100M unit a year. As long as the cost benefits fits their volume they will move to next node.
- hwillis 6y agoASICs?