Wednesday, December 8th 2021
AMD to Tap Samsung's 4 nm Process for Chromebook Processors, Notes the Report from J.P. Morgan
Historically, AMD was working with two semiconductor manufacturing companies: TSMC and GlobalFoundries. According to the latest report coming from Gokul Hariharan, an analyst at J.P. Morgan, AMD could soon tap another semiconductor manufacturer to produce the company's growing list of processors. As the report indicates, AMD could start working with the South Korean giant Samsung and utilize the firm's 4LPP process that represents a second generation of the low-power 4 nm silicon node. This specific node is allegedly the choice for AMD APUs designed to fit inside Google's Chromebook devices, which require low-power designs to achieve excellent battery life.
AMD could realize this move in late 2022, as Samsung's 4LPP node goes into mass production at that point. It means that we could see the first Samsung-made AMD APUs in late 2022 or the beginning of 2023. And apparently, the two company's collaboration could be much more significant as AMD is evaluating Samsung's 3 nm nodes for other products spanning more segments in 2023/2024. There are no official, definitive agreements between the two, so we have to wait for more information and official responses from these parties. Anyways, if AMD decides to produce a part of its lineup at Samsung, the remaining TSMC capacity would ensure that the supply of every incoming chip remains sufficient.
Sources:
@MarcTheShark83, via Tom's Hardware
AMD could realize this move in late 2022, as Samsung's 4LPP node goes into mass production at that point. It means that we could see the first Samsung-made AMD APUs in late 2022 or the beginning of 2023. And apparently, the two company's collaboration could be much more significant as AMD is evaluating Samsung's 3 nm nodes for other products spanning more segments in 2023/2024. There are no official, definitive agreements between the two, so we have to wait for more information and official responses from these parties. Anyways, if AMD decides to produce a part of its lineup at Samsung, the remaining TSMC capacity would ensure that the supply of every incoming chip remains sufficient.
20 Comments on AMD to Tap Samsung's 4 nm Process for Chromebook Processors, Notes the Report from J.P. Morgan
Gate all around definitely has the potential to be more efficient.
Samsung's 5nm Ultra High Density node was 127MT/mm2, but the different 5nm variants range from about 95-127MT/mm2.
For comparison TSMC 5nm is ~170MT/mm2 and their 7nm was around 100MT/mm2.
Intel 10nm is around 101 MT/mm2.
Intel 14nm is ~37.5MT/mm2. Comparable nodes were GloFlo 12nm / 14nm at 36.7MT/mm2 and TSMC 12/14 at 28.9MT/mm2 and Samsung 14nm at 33 MT/mm2.
According to this article, calculated density of Samsung 4LPP is 137MT/mm2.
This puts it slightly more dense than TSMC 7nm and Intel 10nm, and limited to low power applications (high power application of a node is usually less dense).
Discuss the topic... NOT, each other.
Stop the insulting remarks.
Thank You and Have a Nice Day.
And also , even if Samsung didn't quite have node parity in the high end, I realize apple upped the game but since when is high performance even in the same playing field as the phrase Chromebooks!.
Here is basically a selection of video cards I could get, and for reference my RX 480 was $300 CAD when I bought it.
www.newegg.ca/p/pl?N=100007708%208000%204131%204841
I'm not a big gamer so not a huge deal for me, I will wait until prices return to pre-covid, and if they don't, I will use my card until it dies before replacing it.
Nvidia is better position with Turing in this regard. Not only it uses different foundary and node but it also supports newer D3D12 features.