Samsung will soon start producing second generation 10nm chips
Intel made the “tick-tock” approach famous and while things have gotten more complicated recently, the basic rhythm of chip releases lives on. Samsung has announced that the second generation of its 10nm process is ready for production and the company is increasing its manufacturing capacity.
The Snapdragon 835 and Exynos 8895 are built on 10nm LPE (Low Power Early). The second generation is called 10nm LPP (for Low Power Plus) and features enhancements to the 3D FinFET structure.
The result is a 10% performance gain or a 15% power consumption reduction. We will probably see 10nm LPP used for the refreshed version of both the Snapdragon and Exynos top chips. Samsung is installing manufacturing equipment at its newest production line (S3 in Hwaseong, Korea), those will be ready to start cranking out chips in the final quarter of this year.
An example of moving form LPE to LPP are the Galaxy S6 and S7 - the Exynos 7420 (S6) was built on 14nm LPE while the Exynos 8890 (S7) upgraded to 14nm LPP. However, the new process accounts for only some of the improvements. For example, the Snapdragon 820 and 821 were both built on the same 14nm LPP process, but the new one worked at higher clock speeds.
Reader comments
- fakenews
ARM CPUs: first batch "only some parts are actually 10nm, arguably, but really its mostly 14nm and 16nm" second batch "more parts are" third batch "lets do the same for 8nm" Intel CPUs: all transistors are actually 14nm when we say it...
- 22 Apr 2017
- 0mK
Exynos 8890 S7 edge: http://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=G935F Snapdragon S7 edge: http://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=G935V G5: http://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/search?...
- 21 Apr 2017
- EQp
It's not. It has better RAM management, yes. But app opening as well as raw CPU grunt the Exynos is faster. Exynos S7 also crushes the OP3 in battery life.
- 21 Apr 2017
- EQp