GAAFET

Capping off a multi-year development process, Samsung’s foundry group sends word this morning that the company has officially kicked off production on its initial 3nm chip production line. Samsung’s 3nm process is the industry’s first commercial production process node using gate-all-around transistor (GAAFET) technology, marking a major milestone for the field of silicon lithography, and potentially giving Samsung a major boost in its efforts to compete with TSMC. The relatively spartan announcement from Samsung, which comes on the final day of Q2, announces that Samsung has begun production of chips on a GAAFET-enabled 3nm production line. The company is not disclosing the specific version of the node used here, but based on previous Samsung roadmaps, this is undoubtedly Samsung’s initial 3GAE process – essentially, Samsung’s...

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16 by Anton Shilov on 6/29/2022

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59 by Ryan Smith on 7/26/2021

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32 by Anton Shilov on 7/9/2021

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118 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/6/2021

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45 by Anton Shilov on 4/2/2021

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14 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2020

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32 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/14/2019

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25 by Anton Shilov on 5/24/2018

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