Samsung Electronics will begin mass manufacturing of a 2-nanometer silicon manufacturing course of in 2025, the chaebol introduced on Wednesday at its annual Foundry Discussion board.
The corporate claimed its 2nm course of – dubbed SF2 – “has proven a 12 % enhance in efficiency, a 25 % enhance in energy effectivity and a 5 % lower in space” in comparison with its present 3nm course of.
After first making use of the 2nm course of to silicon meant for cell gadgets in 2025, the mega-manufacturer will flip its consideration to chips for prime efficiency computing functions in 2026 after which drive in the direction of automotive semiconductors the next 12 months.
The 2025 timeframe for 2nm manufacturing places Samsung on par with TSMC, which plans to function on the similar scale in the identical 12 months. Intel stopped speaking about nanometers some time again, however has a comparable course of it calls 20A that it hopes to crank up in 2024.
It appears seemingly a few of Samsung’s 2nm output might be chiplets that may be built-in by third events. Why else would Samsung even have introduced the “MDI Alliance” – a grouping of what it described as “accomplice corporations in addition to main gamers in reminiscence, substrate packaging and testing.”
The alliance will type “a packaging expertise ecosystem for two.5D and 3D Heterogeneous Integration” and “present a one-stop turnkey service to higher assist clients’ technological innovation.”
Which sounds quite a bit like a plan to get vital gamers working collectively to make utilizing chiplets simpler.
Samsung itself acknowledged it plans to develop customized packaging for functions together with HPC and automotive.
Different Samsung information from the Foundry Discussion board consists of:
- Plans to begin foundry providers for 8-inch gallium nitride (GaN) energy semiconductors concentrating on shopper, datacenter and automotive functions, in 2025;
- Growth has commenced for 5nm Radio Frequency (RF), with availability due within the first half of 2025. Samsung reckons its 5nm RF course of “reveals a 40 % enhance in energy effectivity and a 50 % lower in space in comparison with the earlier 14nm course of” – qualities it suggests will make for stellar 6G package;
- Plans to make use of its 8nm and 14nm RF processes to the automotive business;
- A 3rd manufacturing line in Pyeongtaek, Korea, will hearth up within the second half of 2023;
- An under-construction fab in Texas will being operations within the second half of 2024.
As soon as that is all sorted, Samsung has extra in retailer: in 2027 it plans to start out mass manufacturing of silicon on a good smaller scale by kicking off mass manufacturing of its SF1.4 course of, which – you guessed it! – is a 1.4nm course of.
All of which most likely makes 2026 and 2028 prime years for Samsung’s package to take some good steps ahead – put your correspondent down for regardless of the premium Galaxy gadgets are referred to as by the point these processes hit excessive volumes. ®
