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Samsung sets out roadmap towards 3-nanometer silicon manufacturing

July 11, 2018 by Sam Francis

Samsung Electronics has set out its roadmap towards 3-nanometer silicon-based technology manufacturing – things like microprocessors. 

As computer chips get smaller, it’s getting increasingly difficult to control the signals that move around on the chip. If the chip is too small, the electrons can jump from one track to another. That is just one possible problem.

Some people say that silicon manufacturers have reached the limit and chips cannot be made any smaller. 

Currently, the industry is capable of 7-nanometer manufacturing, but Samsung Foundry says it is aiming got 3 nanometers.

Details were disclosed at the company’s third Annual US Samsung Foundry Forum
Samsung Electronics, which is a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions.

Samsung unveiled a series of “new silicon innovations” that it says will be at the heart of future high-performance computing and connected devices.

With comprehensive process technology roadmap updates down to 3-nanometer (nm) at the annual Samsung Foundry Forum 2018 USA, Samsung Foundry is focused on providing customers with the tools necessary to design and manufacture powerful, yet energy-efficient system-on-chips for a wide range of applications.

Charlie Bae, executive vice president and head of the foundry sales and marketing team at Samsung Electronics, says: “The trend toward a smarter, connected world has the industry demanding more from silicon providers.

“To meet that demand, Samsung Foundry is powering innovation at the silicon level that will ultimately give people access to data, analysis, and insight in new and previously unthought-of ways to make human lives better.

“It is imperative for us to accomplish the first-time silicon success for our customers’ next-generation chip designs.”

Process technology roadmap updates

7LPP (7nm Low Power Plus): 7LPP, the first semiconductor process technology to use an EUV lithography solution, is scheduled to be ready for production in the second half of this year. Key IPs are under development, aiming to be completed by the first half of 2019.

5LPE (5nm Low Power Early): Through further smart innovation from the 7LPP process, 5LPE will allow greater area scaling and ultra-low power benefits.

4LPE/LPP (4nm Low Power Early/Plus): The use of highly mature and verified FinFET technology will be extended to the 4nm process. As the last generation of FinFET, 4nm provides a smaller cell size, improved performance, and faster ramp-up to the stable level of yield by adopting proven 5LPE, supporting easy migration.

3GAAE/GAAP (3nm Gate-All-Around Early/Plus): 3nm process nodes adopt GAA, the next-generation device architecture. To overcome the physical scaling and performance limitations of the FinFET architecture, Samsung is developing its unique GAA technology, MBCFETTM (Multi-Bridge-Channel FET) that uses a nano-sheet device. By enhancing the gate control, the performance of 3nm nodes will be significantly improved.

High-performance computing solutions

Samsung Foundry says it is also delivering technology solutions to “drive the latest hyper-scale data centers” and accelerate the growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning capability.

From the latest 7LPP technology and beyond with its EUV capability, to the differentiated high-speed IPs such as 100Gbps+ SerDes on top of the innovative 2.5D/3D heterogeneous packaging, Samsung delivers the total platform solutions to greatly increase computing power and accelerate AI revolution.

Connected device solutions

Samsung Foundry says it offers “full-featured turnkey platforms” to enable products from low-power microcontroller units and next-generation connected devices to the most sophisticated autonomous vehicles based on 5G and vehicle-to-everything communication.

It says it has a broad technology portfolio from 28/18 FD-SOI with eMRAM and RF capability to advanced 10/8nm FinFET processes will “enable a great end-user experience for connected devices”.

Bae adds: “Over the past year, we have focused on strengthening our EUV process portfolio to provide each of our customers with the finest technologies.

“Applying GAA structure to our next generation process node will enable us to take the lead in opening a new smart, connected world, while also to reinforcing our technology leadership.”

(Main picture courtesy of ExtremeTech.com.) 

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