Intel has the world's most advanced semiconductor technology, on the FinFET process production more than two years earlier than other manufacturers, 14 nm FinFET process although encountered during childbirth, but still earlier than TSMC, samsung, and Intel technology level is the best, the grid spacing is real 14 nm level, the other two are moisture. Starting in the first half of the transformation, Intel also as the breakthrough point, wafer generation work co-opted by LG electronics, is now a customer confirmed, spreadtrum company in China also use Intel 14 nm technology contract, relevant in October, can the fastest sample chip.
Intel on the wafer manufacturing strength, there is no doubt, after also have sporadic OEM cooperation, but the customer is not much, mainly Altera FPGA companies such as, the result, Intel has their own customers to buy. Spreadtrum for Intel is not an outsider, spreadtrum, another, what the company has been bought a purple light company, later set up purple light show sharp company, and a $1.5 billion stake in Intle company show sharp company, 20% of the shares, which means Intel is now one of the largest shareholder of spreadtrum company.
Intel spent so much money to buy into nature not bad, in addition to plot the Chinese market, estimated contract before the cooperation is also one of the content of the negotiations. Spreadtrum CEO Mr. Lee to swim last year said, will use the Intel 2016 nm process OEM chip, Digitimes now revealed that 14 nm process based on the Intel chips in October, can the fastest sample, progress very fast.
The message says, spreadtrum 14 nm chip will attract orders, related samsung phone is expected to came out in 2017. - see here don't surprised, samsung is early spreadtrum company's VIP clients, though we seldom meet based on spreadtrum chip (but still spreadtrum baseband) smartphone, but in the 3 g chips and overseas market, samsung does have a lot of mobile phones is to use spreadtrum chip.
According to this year in June, spreadtrum + r what in the global mobile phone chips occupy the market share reached 25.4%, more than 24.7% of mediatek.
Cooperate with Intel doesn't mean that, on the other hand, spreadtrum abandon TSMC, they will still use the latter 16 nm and 28 nm process, including spreadtrum SC9860 was the first to use 16 nm TSMC company mobile phone chips of FFC process, competition is mediatek P20, is expected to end of this year will be listed.
Spreadtrum joining is a good start for Intel OEM business, Intel announced before expanding OEM business, we know that a customer is LG electronics, in 14 nm and future 10 nm process on the contract, LG will be Intel contract important partners of the business, but since LG research ARM chips for a long time, hasn't been rushes out what action, than samsung Exynos processor.
According to the original, Intel now has about 2000 employees in China, South Korea, Japan and other Asian customers, Chinese customers and specialized service team in Shanghai.
