According to BusinessKorea, the problems about the low yields of the 14nm FinFET Samsung node are not resolved, yet. The last November, Carlos Peng, Analyst at Fubon Securities, said: “Samsung's yield has been around 30-35% since the beginning of this year. We haven't seen any improvement. Apple and Qualcomm will shift more of their orders to TSMC if it can provide enough capacity”.

Today we can say that the 14nm FinFET node is not ready for high performance chips: “Meanwhile, a contract for new GPU foundries with NVIDIA, which was expected to strengthen the GPU capabilities of Samsung Electronics, is also likely to decrease in terms of volume. Previously, major foreign press said that NVIDIA will decrease its next-generation GPU foundry supply to Samsung Electronics and return to TSMC, contrary to earlier expectations. According to an insider of Samsung, NVIDIA has laid out a certain level of yield rate related to 14 nm GPU foundry production as a condition of a provisional contract to Samsung Electronics, and the negotiation is proceeding with difficulty”.

Also, according to our internal source, it seems that the 14nm FinFET of Samsung cannot be used to produce chips with a 100 mm2 die or bigger, at the present moment (very, very low yields). It's probable that NVIDIA will use 16nm FF+ of TSMC to produce Pascal GPUs during 2016.

Pubblicato in: News, English News
Tags: 14nm , 16nm , amd , finfet , gpu , nvidia , pascal , samsung , tsmc

Autore: Gian Maria Forni
Esperto in: Esperto di mercati e CPU

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