GlobalFoundries announced today that the 22FDX process has locked more than 50 design orders and the total contract amount has exceeded 2 billion dollars.
GF Last year's total income is only 6.176 billion dollars, so such a seemingly ' backward ' process can make so much, is quite successful.
GF July 2015 officially announced the 22FDX process, the biggest feature is The world's first implementation of the 22nm Fd-soi (fully depleted insulating silicon), still using planar transistor, complexity and cost are much lower than 16/14nm.
According to GF, the biggest feature of the 22FDX process is the extremely low static and dynamic power consumption, Only the lowest 0.4V voltage in the industry can be run at 500MHz frequency , and can control the transistor voltage through the software, the highest 1.5V, so it is very suitable for mobile, wearable, IoT IoT, Fr RF and other fields.
According to official data, 22FDX process power consumption than 28nm HKMG reduced by 70%, chip area than 28nm bulk reduced by 20%, lithography layer than FINFET process reduction of nearly 50%, chip cost is lower than 16/14nm 20%, but also integrated RF RF, power loss of up to 50%.
ARM, Imagination, Synaptics, Italian-French semiconductors, Cisco, Freescale, Sony, Rui-core micro, etc. are GF 22FDX process of the major customers.
GF also gave a case of intelligent watch, processor frequency 1.5+ghz, the voltage is only 0.6V, with up to 16Mb SRAM, working temperature 零下25℃ to 85 ℃, can be 14-20 days. GlobalFoundries 22FDX Process Milestone: Three year 2 billion USD
