Tag Archives: FinFET
Samsung leapfrogs Intel again with 8-nanometer chips
Samsung has qualified its 8-nanometer chip-making process for production three months ahead of schedule. It's the same "low power plus" (LPP) process used for its current 10-nanometer silicon, not the next-gen extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography fo...
Samsung Exynos 9 Series is the first processor to use 10nm FinFET process
Samsung has gone official with the launch of its Exynos 9 series processors. These chips are notable as being the first processors in the world built using 10nm FinFET process technology. The first...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 chip is big on photography and VR
Qualcomm hinted that its Snapdragon 835 processor would be something special, and it's ready to show all its cards now that it's at CES. Battery life is one of the chip's strongest selling points, as you may know (we'll recap that later), but Qualco...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 is its first 10-nanometer CPU
Qualcomm has unveiled its next-gen Snapdragon 835 flagship CPU and confirmed rumors that it will be built by Samsung using its 10-nanometer FinFET process. Compared to the current 14-nanometer Snapdragon 821 (also built by Samsung), the new CPU packs...
New Samsung CPU for Wearable Devices Built on 14-Nanometer FinFET Does All
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has begun mass production of the Exynos 7 Dual 7270. It is the first mobile application processor (AP) in the industry designed specifically for wearable...
MediaTek’s octa-core mobile chip focuses on efficiency
Back in June, MediaTek announced its Helio P10 mobile chipset to offer octa-core processing and faster LTE to the masses; and today, we know that it'll finally be getting into consumers' hands by way of the Sony Xperia XA. So what's next? The Helio P...
Samsung reveals high-end, low-power chips for midrange phones
Samsung has announced that it's bringing its 14nm Exynos chips to cheaper smartphones. These are smaller chips that are both more efficient and more powerful, and given that the company is already putting the technology to use on competitors' chips (...
Samsung is making Qualcomm’s latest mobile chip
Samsung says it's making new Exynos processors with low-power 14nm chips -- which is no surprise. What is, however, is that the company is also in charge of building Qualcomm's (maker of Snapdragon) latest chips with the same process. Samsung's FinFE...
AMD’s new graphics core is built for laptop gaming
For all the talk of fast graphics in thin laptops, the technology isn't quite there yet. You typically have to choose between a bulky gaming machine and a thin system with pokey low-end video. AMD thinks it might have the cure, however. It just offer...