Keywords: Intel, ARM wafer
Intel 16 at the annual developers' conference (Intel Developer Forum, IDF) announced that on alliance 10 nanometers, ARM development with LG chip manufacturers such as ARM architecture, in addition to reveal its ambition to return to the wafer foundry business, also reveal the wafer foundry increasingly white-hot competition.
16, Intel announced the IDF convention in their own, have made the ARM IP authorization, will be in 10 nm process ARM, hand in hand, and with LG smartphone chip production 10 nm ARM architecture, also let TSMC, samsung and other wafer detect plant alarm bells ringing.
It reveals the Intel in the wafer foundry market expansion ambitions, Intel in 2010, and agreed to the small chip designer Achronix makes chips, when 22 nm process into wafer foundry field, smartphone tide rise, TSMC, samsung under a blessing all the big customers, earn rich, Intel is a low profile in the wafer foundry market is also in the shade.
Intel estimates, by 2020, networking devices will be more than 50 billion, officials say, it is full of dramatic growth will bring wafer foundry business growth. Intel recently for the next generation LTE iPhone production modulation demodulator chip talk, Intel announced ARM, hand in hand, some experts even think that not only LG, spreadtrum, what future Intel could threaten TSMC, samsung in apple series A processor order of competition.
Below 10 nm process war hot start
Not only orders for the obvious, all process of the competition wrangling continues. Intel, TSMC, samsung, the process is still in the 14/16 nm, but according to the Taiwan semiconductor and samsung, the fastest can enter mass production by the end of the 10 nm, Intel also overtaking. And Intel in the previous announcement product updates, nanotechnology will be extended to the second half of the 2017, 10 or more years, however, as the new science and technology are discussed before the process technology beautify the nodes, Intel architecture and integration process director Mark Bohr was pointed out that not all 10 of the nano is the same, in terms of density, Mark Bohr, expects other vendors to so-called 7 Intel will close to 10 nano process.
TSMC 7 nm is expected to trial-produce, 2018, 2017, the samsung 7 nm production is also the end of 2017. Contains TSMC, Intel 7 nm are seen as important by nodes, most remarkably, wafer designed work second brother, Romania, in has renounced 10 nm process by 7 nm.
This, Romania's chief technology officer Gary Patton in accepting the foreign media reported put forward their views, he thinks that 10 nm process in efficiency is improved, but unable to get maximum leverage, between efficiency and cost, Romania, after have done many experiments and obtained many data, think betting in seven nanometers will receive the best benefit, nanometer scale factor is the most economic, its contracted 64% area also compensate for the loss of a miniature process needs more mask.
Intel technology conference in 2016, Morgan Stanley has stressed that his seven nano technology will be a major breakthrough, and then back to two years of Moore's law process transformation period, the process fight, all manufacturers in 7 nm fight, wafer foundry supremacy 7 nano destined.
