Soleron said:
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Samsung and globalfoundries are clearly referring to TSMC's 20/16nm process nodes but I don't think samsung is lying because they tested this out with some SRAM cells or so ? After all TSMC's 16nm node has ABSOLUTELY no chip area scaling compared to their last generation 20nm technology. All TSMC's 16nm process node is 20nm + FinFET.
I have a good feeling about globalfoundries that this time they'll actually deliver for the most part. Samsung practically footed all of the R&D bills for them which is a good thing for AMD and the rest of the customers.
Intel was always better than TSMC when it came to semiconductor manufacturing but this doesn't change the fact that it isn't about minimum feature sizes anymore.
Well to be fair samsung's 14nm node is more than just Intel's 22nm node. It's definitely more closer to Intel's 14nm node than you give it credit for seeing as how samsung isn't just some small player in the industry.
Edit: Found it ...
The only other foundry is going to launch their "Planar 20nm process node" while giving no chip area scaling in it's next generation wafers is TSMC. Since both Samsung and Globalfoundries are attempting to aim for mass production by the end of 2014 they will essentially have a 12 month lead on TSMC. Intel's lead on them is at best only 10 months. The reasons why samsung and globalfoundries are skipping 20nm is because they agreed that it will have a short life span. The saddest part about all of this is despite the fact that TSMC has a clear advantage of chip area scaling with it's 20nm process node when compared to Intel's 22nm process node all of it will have been for nothing due to the fact that TSMC has hamstrung that advantage by the fact that it didn't implement FinFET technology which is just as important as having better chip area scaling.