Samsung is skipping a few steps in chip development

Feb 24, 2015 13:08 GMT  ·  By

Samsung wants to make a name for itself in the chip market and is slowly pushing towards the achievement of this goal.

As you probably have heard by now, the Korean tech giant will no longer utilize a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor with its Galaxy S6 flagship and will rely on its home grown Exynos 7420 architecture instead.

Samsung has also managed to produce 14-nm FinFET chips for the mobile market (like the Exynos in question), while giants of the industry, Qualcomm included, still rely on 20-nm technology.

The device maker is also expected to use the same process in the creation of Apple’s next Ax chip. But while 14-nm technology is still quite fresh and the industry needs to catch up with the standard, Samsung continues to race miles ahead of the competition.

Samsung wows with a 10-nm mobile chip

Samsung is currently present at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, and according to a fresh report coming out of G for Games, the company just pulled the veil off the world’s first 10nm FinFET semiconductor technology, while leaving everyone speechless in the process.

Not a whole lot of details have been revealed for the time being, but we can tell you that Samsung said the new tech will play a major role in the evolution of IoT (Internet of Things).

The company’s president, Kim Ki-nam explained that 10-nm FinFET manufacturing processes will open the door to next-gen power efficient chips which have been greatly diminished in size too.

10-nm DRAM and 3D V-NAND tech were also brought into discussion, as the chips built using this tech will enable more storage to be fitted within the same area.

Samsung didn’t say when the first 10-nm devices would appear into the wild, but let’s face it, we probably won’t see them before 2016-2017.

While we wait on the Galaxy S6, we could fantasize about a near future when Samsung will unveil a new flagship (quite possibly the Galaxy S7) which will draw power from a 10-nm FinFET Exynos SoC.

We hope more information about Samsung’s new chip will surface soon enough. We’ll keep you posted.