Samsung said that ARM's Cortex-A76 will use Samsung's 7nm LPP process and 5nm LPE process to achieve 3GHz+ high frequency performance beyond ARM's fastest 2.8GHz frequency. Samsung's next-generation 5nm LPE process is based on 7nm EUV process improvement. Cheng, specific information has not been announced. Samsung 7nm LPP will be initially mass-produced in the second half of this year, the first IP using EUV lithography technology is under development, is expected to be officially launched in the first half of 2019.
This shows that Samsung's first 7nm will adopt a multi-patterned design, and its manufacturing cost will be significantly improved. The introduction of EUV technology is expected to reduce costs, but it can not directly improve the performance of the chip. Although EUV technology is delayed due to production problems and risks It has not been officially introduced for more than ten years, but the project has made initial progress.
Kelvin Low, vice president of marketing for ARM Physical Design, said that ARM and Samsung OEM have developed a large number of chips based on Artisan physical IP. Samsung's 7LPP and 5LPE node technologies can meet the needs of their common customers and provide them with mobile data. Center to the second generation of the latest chip system for high performance data centers.
Both Intel and AMD must realize that ARM is slowly becoming a force to be reckoned with in the server and high-performance computing markets.