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Samsung is working to make its chips smaller than ever

Smaller processing chips are good for two reasons. Firstly, portable devices can be made smaller and second, they consume less power without losing performance.

Samsung has announced that its eight nanometer FinFET process and 8LPP (low power plus) is ready to go into production.

For those that keep tabs on how small chips have become over the years you’ll know that Samsung’s Exynos chips in the Galaxy S8, and Galaxy Note 8 all use a 10nm FinFET process.

Intel – though it manufactures chips for a different segment – still uses a 14nm process.

So what is the benefit to you on the back of this news? Samsung claims the 8LPP process node provides a 10 percent haircut on power consumption compared to 10LPP. The physical area of the chip is also 10 percent smaller than the previous generation.

The 8LPP process will also provide benefits for applications such as cryptocurrency and other “high performance applications”.

A report by ZDNet confirms that Qualcomm will be using Samsung’s 8nm process.

However, with all of these benefits 8nm appears to be a waypoint on the road to a 7nm process. That process will use an all new extreme ultraviolet lithography which is rather pricey. It’s also rumoured that Qualcomm will jump ship when 7nm processes are a reality which would be a pity considering the firm has used Sammy’s 10nm process as well.

Samsung said it will reveal more about 8LPP availability and the development of 7nm at the Samsung Foundry Forum Europe this week.

[Source – Samsung] [Image – CC BY 0 Pixabay]

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