Most mid-range to high-end smartphones this year adopt
chipsets built with 14nm and 10nm processes, and it seems that for next year
the chipsets used will level up. As one of the chipset manufactures, Samsung
has recently announced that it has started production of 11nm chipsets for
mid-range and high-end smartphones.
For those of you who are not familiar, the chipset built
with the 11nm Low Power Plus (LPP) process is a smaller scale version of the
LPP 14nm process used for middle class chips today such as Snapdragon 660 and
Snapdragon 630. The good impact is the smaller process it offers a performance
boost of up to 15%, using the same power.
The size of the chipset itself will decrease by 10%, which
will have an impact on the chipset price drop. For chipsets with 11nm process
itself is expected to be available in the first half of 2018.
As for premium smartphone or flagship next year will use a
new LPP 7nm chipset built with Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) litography. For the
7nm chipset itself is expected to be available in the second half of 2018, and
that coincides with the availability of Apple's A12 chipset for iPhone which
will be launched in 2018.
According to Samsung Electronics' Vice President and Head of
Foundry Marketing, Ryan Lee, with this Samsung has completed a comprehensive
process roadmap ranging from 14nm to 11nm, 10nm, 8nm and 7nm in the next three
years. For further details, the company is expected to disclose details on
September 15 at the Samsung Foundry Forum event in Japan.
Could the company have plans to plunge into the 6nm process?
We look forward to the next news.