GlobalFoundries announces 14 nm chips

In a surprising motion, semiconductor manufacturing company GlobalFoundries announced that it is going to start producing chips on the 14 nm process. Thanks to the efforts of the Samsung GlobalFoundries partnership, the latter was able to propel itself to new heights by announcing chips for the aforementioned process. Currently, Samsung'due south Milky way S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge are incorporated with the company's 14 nm Exynos 7420 SoC, and we all know that it performs far improve than Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810.

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As we take reported iv months ago Globalfoundries has promised to brainstorm book production of 14nm FinFET based chips in the starting time half of this twelvemonth. In a statement published on th the 2d of April by Mubadala, the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government and the parent company of Globalfoundries reaffirmed its readiness to bring cut border flake manufacturing to customers this year. As the Globalfoundries Malta fab in New York begins ramping chip wafers for the company's customers.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced a strategic collaboration with Samsung to evangelize capacity at 14 nanometer (nm), one of the manufacture's most advanced nodes, as Fab eight in Republic of malta, New York began ramping production for customers.

Samsung has developed two 14nm FinFET manufacturing processes 14LPE and 14LPP. The second being better than the first in nearly all regards. Performance, power consumption and yield. The 14LPE node only serves as a ways to customers to bring 14nm FinFET chips early on to marketplace without having to expect an additional quarter for 14LPP. Globalfoundries has licensed both of these process nodes from Samsung. The outset is already ramping and the 2nd is expected to follow in the coming months. Additionally, the partnership will also put significant pressure on TSMC, which happens to be GlobalFoundries' biggest pure play foundry rival.

Before, it was reported that Apple will be tapping Samsung instead of TSMC to start mass producing the Cupertino tech giant's A9 SoCs. Now that the story has been confirmed, we can only imagine what TSMC's executives will be contemplating.

Furthermore, information technology has also been suspected that Qualcomm'due south Snapdragon 820 SoC is also going to exist fabricated on the xiv nm node, which the leading mobile chipset maker can just receive if it forms an brotherhood with the Due south Korean smartphone giant Samsung.

More than details concerning the partnership of Samsung and GlobalFoundries will be published as soon equally it is available.