14nm
Samsung outlined its foundry business roadmap for the next five years at its Foundry Forum event last week. The company plans to introduce its next generation fabrication technologies in a timely manner and intends to make chips on its 1.4 nm (14 angstroms) manufacturing process by 2027. Also, the company will keep investing in new manufacturing capacity going forward as it strives to strengthen its position in the foundry market. New Nodes Incoming Samsung has been introducing new production nodes and/or variants on production nodes every 12 – 18 months for several years now, and plans to keep its rather aggressive pace going forward. Though the company’s roadmap illustrates, fanfare aside, that it is now taking longer to develop new fabrication processes. The company’s second-generation 3...
Samsung Foundry’s New 17nm Node: 17LPV brings FinFET to 28nm
Despite most discussion about chip manufacturing focusing on the leading edge and blazingly fast and complex side of the industry, the demand for the ‘legacy’ process technologies is also...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/6/2021
Intel Core i7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake
The march on performance with desktop platforms has unique challenges compared to other platforms. Peak single thread throughput is often considered the Holy Grail, with a fast follow up...
541 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2021
Intel Previews 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake: Core i9-11900K and Z590, Coming Q1
Spending five generations on the same base microarchitecture is a long time. Progress and excitement can be sustained through optimizing a process node, adding cores, and extracting every drop...
33 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021
Intel's CES 2021 Press Event: The Future of Intel (A Live Blog, 1pm PT)
One of our first events of the annual CES trade show this year is Intel's press conference on its consumer product lines. Heading up the event with be Intel's...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021
Intel’s 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake Detailed: Ice Lake Core with Xe Graphics
During a time of increased competitor activity, Intel has decided to disclose some of the high level details surrounding its next generation consumer processor, known as Rocket Lake or...
189 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/29/2020
Intel Adds Core i9-10850K To Desktop Chip Lineup: 10 Cores Minus 100MHz
Intel this morning is taking the wraps off of a new Core i9 processor that it’s adding to its family of Comet Lake desktop CPUs. Taking its place as...
27 by Ryan Smith on 7/27/2020
AMD Succeeds in its 25x20 Goal: Renoir Crosses the Line in 2020
One of the stories bubbling away in the background of the industry is the AMD self-imposed ‘25x20’ goal. Starting with performance in 2014, AMD committed to itself, to customers...
83 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/25/2020
The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10600K CPU Review: Skylake We Go Again
The first thing that comes to mind with Intel’s newest line of 10th Generation desktop processors is one of ‘14nm Skylake, again?’. It is hard not to ignore the...
220 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/20/2020
SMIC Details Its N+1 Process Technology: 7nm Performance in China
SMIC first started volume production of chips using its 14 nm FinFET fabrication process in Q4 2019. Since then, the company has been hard at work developing its next...
20 by Anton Shilov on 3/23/2020
Intel’s Cooper Lake Plans: The Chip That Wasn’t Meant to Exist, Fades Away
Following an exclusive report from SemiAccurate, and confirmed by Intel through ServeTheHome, the news on the wire is that Intel is set to can wide-spread general availability to its...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/17/2020
Intel Puts Whiskey Lake on The Bonfire: Penny for the NUC
Intel has begun winding down sales of the majority of its Whiskey Lake-based 8th generation NUCs (NUC8 Series). This month the company issued a product change notification for...
13 by Anton Shilov on 3/10/2020
AnandTech Year In Review 2019: Lots of CPUs
Throughout 2019, we’ve had quite the reverse of performance when it comes to the competitiveness of the modern performance-oriented desktop processor. This year we’ve seen AMD introduce its Zen...
25 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/27/2019
Samsung Kicks Off Mass Production of AI Chip for Baidu: 260 TOPS at 150 W
Samsung Foundry and Baidu this week said that the companies were about to start mass production of an AI accelerator chip early in 2020. Baidu’s Kunlun chip is to...
9 by Anton Shilov on 12/18/2019
Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029: Back Porting, 7nm, 5nm, 3nm, 2nm, and 1.4 nm
One of the interesting disclosures here at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) has been around new and upcoming process node technologies. Almost every session so far this...
138 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/11/2019
Dell: Intel CPU Shortages Worsened in Q4, Premium & Commercial PCs Impacted
Shortages of Intel’s CPUs have persisted for well over a year now, but according to Dell, they actually got worse in the ongoing quarter because of unexpectedly high demand...
82 by Anton Shilov on 11/27/2019
It’s a Cascade of 14nm CPUs: AnandTech’s Intel Core i9-10980XE Review
The most profitable process node in the history of Intel has been its 14nm process. Since 2014, the company has been pumping out CPUs built on a variety of...
79 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/25/2019
Intel Publishes Letter to Customers Apologizing for CPU Shipment Delays
In a move that I don’t believe has precedence within the x86 CPU industry, Intel this afternoon has publicly published a letter to its customers and partners apologizing for...
49 by Ryan Smith on 11/20/2019
ASUS: Intel CPU Shortages Easing, But Future Is Uncertain
During its earnings call with analysts and investors, ASUS commented that while the tight supply of Intel’s processors persisted, it is no longer as severe as it was in...
20 by Anton Shilov on 11/15/2019
SMIC Begins Volume Production of 14 nm FinFET Chips: China’s First FinFET Line
SMIC has started volume production of chips using its 14 nm FinFET manufacturing technology. The largest contract maker of semiconductors in China is the first company in the country...
15 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2019
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