“TSMC’s 20nm process is apparently ahead of schedule,” Nermin Hajdarbegovic reports for TG Daily. “Focus Taiwan reports TSMC will open its first commercial 20nm facility, dubbed Fab 14, on April 20. This is a couple of months ahead of schedule and the new process will allow TSMC to maintain its lead for quite a while.”
“In contrast, Samsung is still struggling to get its 28nm process off the ground,” Hajdarbegovic reports. “Samsung’s first 28nm SoC, the Exynos 5 Octa, already seems to be behind schedule. As a result most Galaxy S4 phones will ship with Qualcomm processors instead. But this time next year things could get much worse for Samsung. The Exynos 5 Octa is a very competitive chip for the time being, but the next crop of A15 and custom core SoCs from the likes of Nvidia, Qualcomm and other players could show up in roughly a year and many could use TSMC’s new 20nm process. Apple is also said to be looking at TSMC’s 20nm offer and it is looking to ditch Samsung wherever possible.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Gee, that’s too bad, isn’t it?
A darn shame MDN, a darn shame. Heh heh…
28 nm is so last week.
28 nm? I could drive a truck through there!
You should be able to do so!
28 nm is 2.8 million times the width of the broad side of a barn!
(Just for those who don’t know… a barn is a unit of area that is 1e-28 square meters. The “broad side of a barn” is the square root of that, or 1e-14 meters.)
Awww, yeah, I knew that…
@Shadowself: Fascinating unit of measurement. But, after looking it up, I see that it isn’t as simple as being just a plain (no pun intended) unit of measuring area, but rather cross-sectional area of probability. Supposedly, the ‘barn’ measures the probability of interaction between small particles. So, it depends on what kind of incoming particle is potentially interacting with the particle in question.
So, the measurement in barns for an approaching truck would be different than for an approaching car, as well as different for a Mac or PC versus an iPad. 🙂
Finally, something they can’t shamelessly copy. I wait patiently for Humble Pie to be served.
LOL
First there was the “Megahertz Myth” now it’s “Nanometers Matter”
It matters to my wife!
LOL
Dont forget ‘Megapixels matters’
Not as much as the size of your pixels.
What about color depth? Or, Mean Time Between Failure? 🙂
Its not the size of the pixel; its how you use it.
That brings up the question of the state of Schroedinger’s cat:
Is it alive or is it dead? It’s a question of probabilities.
A15?
Cortex A15 core is 40 percent faster than the Cortex-A9 core with the same number of cores at the same speed.
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A15_MPCore
Boycott Samdung!!!
Buying another iPhone this summer. Will that work? 🙂
Do you think we could pay a gang of kids to go to their Korean HQ, rappel down the north face and paint a big red and white target?
Let Kimmie Jongle Un-derwear take target (heh-heh) practice?
This isn’t quite as bad for Samsu g as the article states. Samsung has always bought chips from other makers for its own devices. While they do want to sell chips, and use them themselves, their chip making business is a small portion of their overall sales. We need to remember that Samsung is more than phones, tablets and Tv’s. it’s Samsung Heavy Industries, and they are at least 25% of the entire S Korean economy.
Awwww… But we were having soooo much fun!
Take your logic and… well, just save it for a less fun time. 🙂
US military out of ROK (aka: South Korea) now. Let Samsung handle it.
Oh dear. That would be a short battle.
With Judge Koh in its pocket, Samsung should be fine for now. /s
My heart bleeds for shamlesssung, no more A series design plans from Apple to copy….er incorporate into your chip designs. What a damn shame¡/s