Samsung fires up 10-nm chip production
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Half a year ago, Samsung announced that it was fabricating DRAM on a "10-nm class" process. Now, the company is announcing that it's fabricating microprocessors with 10-nm feature size-unspecified SoCs, more specifically. The company skips the vague "class" descriptor this time around, and says that it is using a new 10-nm FinFET process called 10LPE. This move is in contrast with GloFo's decision to skip 10nm and go straight to 7-nm manufacturing.
LPE, to delve into jargon for a moment, stands for Low-Power Early. Chipmakers usually use the term to describe a fabrication process that sacrifices some efficiency in exchange for a rapid ...