Samsung, in collaboration with Globalfoundries, has announced a collaboration that will help produce enough processors using the 14-nm FinFET process. It is thanks to this cooperation that both companies will start producing their processors with the help of the most advanced production technology today, which will ensure a sufficient number of chips for the needs of the whole world. The processors themselves will begin to be produced in two Samsung factories and one Globalfoundries factory in New York.
Samsung's first factory is located in Hwaseong, South Korea, while the second is located in Austin, Texas, where, among other things, it started Apple to produce sapphire glasses for their future products. 14-nanometer FinFET technology means in the technological world that processors have up to 35% lower energy consumption, are 15% smaller compared to the current 20-nm process and are 20% faster. Simultaneously with the start of production, the company began to provide its customers with kits for the development of new chips. It is practically a development kit for chip architects who work, for example, in Apple, who is a long-term customer of Samsung. Mass production of chips will begin at the end of 2014, and that is why 14-nm processors should appear in next year's generation iPhone.
*Source: Sammytoday
