{"id":1199045,"date":"2023-11-02T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199045"},"modified":"2023-11-02T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:00:00","slug":"samsungs-next-gen-3nm-and-4nm-nodes-on-track-for-mass-production-in-2h-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199045","title":{"rendered":"Samsung's Next-Gen 3nm and 4nm Nodes on Track for Mass Production in 2H 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Samsung is set to start making chips using its 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Generation 3nm-class (SF3) manufacturing technology as well as performance-enhanced version of its 4nm-class (SF4X) fabrication process in the second half of next year, the company told its investors this week. Both production nodes are expected to significantly improve competitive positions of the company as they will enable it to build new types of products.<\/p>\n


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“We will strengthen our technology competitiveness through the 2H [2024] mass production of the 2nd generation 3nm process as well as the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0generation 4nm process for HPC,” a statement by the company reads. “The market is forecast to shift to growth thanks to a rebound in mobile demand and continued growth in HPC demand.”<\/p>\n


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Samsung’s forthcoming SF3 process technology is a\u00a0major\u00a0upgrade to its existing SF3E\u00a0production node, which, based on the available knowledge, is only used to make small chips for cryptocurrency mining.\u00a0Samsung asserts that the SF3 will offer greater design versatility by allowing for different\u00a0gate-all-around (GAA) transistor’s\u00a0nanosheet channel widths within the same cell type.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Although Samsung\u00a0does not\u00a0make\u00a0direct comparisons between SF3 and SF3E, it says that SF3 offers major improvements over\u00a0SF4 (4LPP, 4nm-class, low power plus),\u00a0which includes\u00a0a 22% increase in performance at equivalent power and complexity, or alternatively, a 34% reduction in power consumption at the same frequency and transistor count, along with a 21% reduction in logic area.\u00a0In general, it is expected that SF3 will be a better option for complex designs than SF3E, though it will enter high-volume production in the second half of 2024.<\/p>\n


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In the meantime, Samsung Foundry’s 4nm-class generation nodes continue to evolve. The company\u00a0gearing up to launch its SF4X (4HPC, 4 nm-class high-performance computing) process technology, tailored for high-performance applications such as CPUs and GPUs used in data centers.\u00a0This one is going to be SF’s\u00a0first process node in recent\u00a0years\u00a0that has been specifically designed\u00a0for\u00a0high-performance computing (HPC)\u00a0applications.<\/p>\n


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Samsung’s\u00a0SF4X process\u00a0technology promises to\u00a0deliver a 10% improvement in performance along with a 23% reduction in power consumption. While Samsung has not\u00a0disclosed\u00a0the baseline for this comparison, it is likely in reference to their standard SF4 (4LPP) process. This enhancement is achieved through a redesign of the transistor’s source and drain regions, following a reassessment of their performance under potentially high-stress conditions, the application of advanced transistor-level design-technology co-optimization (T-DTCO), and the implementation of a\u00a0new\u00a0middle-of-line (MOL) architecture.<\/p>\n


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With\u00a0refined\u00a0MOL architecture,\u00a0SF4X\u00a0is expected\u00a0to achieve a silicon-validated minimum operating voltage (Vmin) for CPUs at 60mV, reduce the variability in the off-state current (IDDQ) by 10%, ensure stable high voltage (Vdd) operation above 1V without compromising performance, and enhance process margin for SRAM.<\/p>\n


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\nSource: AnandTech – Samsung’s Next-Gen 3nm and 4nm Nodes on Track for Mass Production in 2H 2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samsung is set to start making chips using its 2nd\u00a0Generation 3nm-class (SF3) manufacturing technology as well as performance-enhanced version of its 4nm-class (SF4X) fabrication process in the second half of next year, the company told its investors this week. Both … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,110],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-1199045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anandtech","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-anandtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}