It seems Samsung's foundries will have no shortage of orders in the
months to come. The company’s 14nm FinFET production process, originally
developed for its in-house built Exynos chips, has naturally drawn the
attention of other chip makers as well. By all accounts, Qualcomm's next
powerhouse SoC – the Snapdragon 820, will also be produced by Samsung,
using the same 14nm FinFET process intended for its new Exynos 8 Octa
chips.
The process in question is actually a second generation FinFET, which
delivers up to 15% higher speeds and roughly the same improvement in
terms of power consumption over its predecessor. It is dubbed
LPP(Low-Power Plus) and is an all-round improvement over last-years 14nm
LPE process, despite the absence of a subsequent die shrink. This is
achieved through the use of fully-depleted FinFET transistors, as well
as numerous other improvements to transistor structure and process
optimization.
This definitely levels out the playing field between Samsung and
Qualcomm in their next-gen flagship chipsets, at least to some degree
and is definitely beneficial to users in the grand scheme of things,
enabling new more powerful and less power hungry devices.
However, it still leaves plenty of room for competition in other aspects, most-notably – processor cores architecture. After sticking with standard ARM cores for a while, Samsung has turned to a custom-core solution with the Exynos 8890. Qualcomm has also returned to a custom-core solution with the Snapdragon 820.
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The process in question is actually a second generation FinFET, which
delivers up to 15% higher speeds and roughly the same improvement in
terms of power consumption over its predecessor. It is dubbed
LPP(Low-Power Plus) and is an all-round improvement over last-years 14nm
LPE process, despite the absence of a subsequent die shrink. This is
achieved through the use of fully-depleted FinFET transistors, as well
as numerous other improvements to transistor structure and process
optimization.
This definitely levels out the playing field between Samsung and
Qualcomm in their next-gen flagship chipsets, at least to some degree
and is definitely beneficial to users in the grand scheme of things,
enabling new more powerful and less power hungry devices.
However, it still leaves plenty of room for competition in other aspects, most-notably – processor cores architecture. After sticking with standard ARM cores for a while, Samsung has turned to a custom-core solution with the Exynos 8890. Qualcomm has also returned to a custom-core solution with the Snapdragon 820.
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