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Kind of wondering what this means relative to competitors. Intel is at 14nm now since 2014 and Samsung recently got to 14nm in Galaxy S6? And Samsung and TSMC
by RockyMcNuts 11y ago
Kind of wondering what this means relative to competitors.
Intel is at 14nm now since 2014 and Samsung recently got to 14nm in Galaxy S6? And Samsung and TSMC have similar roadmaps for 10nm? So conceivably others might be catching up to Intel in fab? Say it ain't so? (I'm asking because I don't follow these things closely but that was the picture I got.)
If Intel doesn't maintain their big edge in fab I'm not sure they can charge the kind of premium they have been. 64-bit ARM is going to start looking mighty attractive for a lot of use cases.
- amaranth 11y agoSamsung's 14nm isn't as dense as Intel's because it's sort of a hybrid of a 20nm process and a 14nm one. TSMC's 16nm is apparently just their 20nm process but with FinFETs so will be the least dense of the three. I suspect their 10nm will also end up less dense than what Intel puts out but we'll have to wait and see on that. As far as timetables for production, recent rumors put TSMC's 10nm plans at 2017 as well, delayed from their original Q4 2016 goal. Haven't see anything about delays on Samsung's side so they might actually get there first.