According to BusinessKorea reported that Samsung will start mass production of the third generation of 4nm chips in the first half of this year, will stabilize the process early stage of yield issues, as well as improve performance, power consumption and make area improvements.
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Samsung Electronics 12 announced in the “Samsung Electronics Business Report” shows that Samsung will start mass production of 4nm-based 2.3 generation chips in the first half of this year.
This is the first time Samsung Electronics mentioned the specific mass production time of the 4nm successor version. Compared with the earlier version of the 4nm chip SF4E, the second and third generation products have shown better performance, but also brought lower power consumption and smaller area.
However, Samsung Electronics in SF4E chip commercialization after the chip yield management also encountered a series of problems, and ultimately because of poor energy performance coupled with capacity constraints will be a major customer Qualcomm gave up to TSMC.
Industry insiders estimate that the current 4-nanometer process yield of Samsung Electronics can reach 60%, while TSMC yield of the same type can reach 70 ~ 80%. Experts believe that Samsung Electronics yields are rapidly improving, and mass production of subsequent products is accelerating.
As Samsung Electronics continues to make breakthroughs in advanced processes to ensure production capacity under the premise of improved performance, it is expected to further compete with TSMC in mass production of processes above the 5nm level.
The most advanced semiconductor process is the 3nm level, but both TSMC and Samsung’s current main products are still 4nm and 5nm.
According to market research firm Counterpoint Research, as of the third quarter of last year, 4nm and 5nm processes accounted for the highest sales ratio, reaching 22%, more than the 6nm and 7nm processes of 16% and 16, 14 and 12nm processes of 11%.