ARM and TSMC validate a 10-nm FinFET test chip
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ARM Holdings' first ARM v8 test chip based on TSMC's 10FinFET process technology has passed validation. For the SoC arena, this is exciting news as the validation news also brings with it the IP building blocks, EDA (CAD) tools, design flow and methodology needed for customers to harness TSMC's next-generation process tech.
ARM provided some members of the press with details of the "Artemis" test chip. The slides depict a simplified SoC comprising an "Artemis" quad-core CPU and a Mali GPU. The Artemis CPU uses an as-yet-unnanounced architecture, while the Mali GPU only has a single shader. The simplified SoC features balance chip ...