Now the speed of the smartphone iteration is so fast, it used to be a new machine a year ago, and now it will release a new machine in less than six months. At the same time, the trend of mobile phone is also changing, big screen mobile phones, curved screen mobile phones, dual-camera phones, full screen mobile phones and so on.
In addition to these external changes, the changes in the internal hardware of the handset are also very large and surprising. From a few years ago, Android mobile Camp began to shuffle, the old manufacturers gradually fade out of the market, the new brand manufacturers are increasing, competition is extremely fierce.
In order to be better in the market, manufacturers to open a mobile phone hardware ' arms race ', which the cell phone chips, memory, batteries, cameras and other components play an important role. Cell phone chip is the brain of the mobile phone, its strength directly affects the performance of the mobile phone. Although this field of hand manufacturers are not many, but in recent years, the evolution of the history, its intensity does not need other hardware low. Why do you say that?
Look at the process of mobile phone chips. 2017 is a mobile phone chip 10nm process of the year, a time of Apple A11, Kirin 970, Qualcomm 835 and Samsung 8895 and other chips are used in 10nm process technology.
When people think 10nm will be at least used for a long time, there are indications that this year's mobile phone chips will enter the era of 7NM technology. Last month, Yu revealed that Huawei will be at the IFA in Berlin, the world's first commercial 7nm process mobile phone SOC (Kirin 980), the chip will be launched this October by the Huawei Mate 20 series launch. Today, after Huawei, Qualcomm officially announced the new generation of flagship Xiao Dragon chip using the 7NM technology message. Coincidentally, Apple this year's flagship chip A12 will also adopt a 7nm process.
And up to now, 10nm is officially facing consumers for only one year. Compared to the 10nm process, 7nm size is smaller, than the normal coins are smaller, and its transistor integration is very high. The cell phone interior space inch gold, the smaller chip is advantageous in freeing up the precious space to accommodate the bigger battery, enhances the equipment the endurance ability.
In addition, the 7NM chip process will also reduce the processor's power consumption, reduce its calorific value, solve the processor performance improvement obstacles. The most obvious improvement is the performance part, before the Gaotong long chip from 14nm jump to 10nm, the chip speed of 27% faster, efficiency 40%. 10nm to 7NM, performance will also increase 20%-30%, mobile phone chip computing capacity significantly improved.
Now the mobile phone for the endurance, performance has a more stringent requirements, and process technology progress is the driving chip upgrades an important impetus. At present, only one of the TSMC has been put into production 7nm, Samsung Semiconductor 7nm has not yet been the exact news, Intel's 10nm is still in childbirth. Apple A12, Huawei Kirin 980 and Gaotong Dragon 855 are all from TSMC, so from the process that the three chips are not different, more of the difference is IC design.
