Samsung has announced future plans for its chip division
It will start mass production of 2nm chips within two years
Two years after that, it will switch to a 1.4nm process
These days, the Samsung Foundry forum event is taking place in Seoul, South Korea, where Samsung presents its future innovations in the field of mobile chips. Although Exynos mobile chipsets are not currently in the limelight, the Korean giant plans to invest huge resources in research and development, and improve production not only to cover its needs, but also for other customers.
Two nanometers in two years
Samsung has boasted that it plans to start mass production of 2nm mobile chips in 2025. Thanks to a more modern manufacturing process, these chips should offer 12 percent higher performance and 25 percent better energy efficiency. Compared to the current 3nm chips that Samsung launched last year, the physical size should decrease by 5 percent.
Samsung wants to use the 2nm process first for mobile chipsets, then in 2026 it wants to use it in the production of high-performance chips for servers and computers. In 2027, the Koreans expect it to enter the automotive industry. In the same year, Samsung is planning a gradual transition to the 1.4nm process, but we don’t know any other details here yet.
Even new generations of manufacturing processes from Samsung should use the current GAA (Gate All Around) technology, which allows changing the size of the channels of individual nanolayers in the internal structure of the chip to increase performance and energy efficiency.
Samsung also announced plans to more than 7x increase production space by adding new production lines at factories in South Korea and the United States. In the second half of this year, serial production of mobile and other chips is to be launched in Pyeontaek, Korea, and construction of a new line in Texas, USA, is to be completed at the end of the year. Here, production should start in the second half of next year.
Samsung is currently the second largest chip manufacturer in the world, the number one is the Taiwanese company TSMC, which also plans to switch to the 2nm process in 2025. This year we should expect the first 3nm mobile processors from TSMC – on the one hand, the Apple A17 Bionic chipset in the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, and likely the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset that will power the next flagship smartphones and Android.
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Jakub Karásek
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2023-07-03 10:00:00
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