Recently, Samsung and Synopsys announced that the 3nm GAA process has been successfully taped out. This is the world‘s first GAA transistor process tapeout, which is of great significance.
However, Samsung did not disclose when the 3nm GAA process will be mass-produced, which is the most critical part.
A few days ago, some analysts quoted a statement made by Qualcomm executives that 3nm GAA process chips will not come out in 2023, but the more realistic time point is 2024, which means that mass production will not be possible until 3 years later.
Samsung said as early as 2019 when it announced the PDK specification for the 3nm GAA process,It is expected that the 3nm GAA process will be trial-produced by the end of 2020 and mass production in 2021-now that Samsung is too optimistic, the 3nm GAA process has been skipped for three years.
On the bright side, after the 3nm process uses GAA transistor technology, the changes are still worth looking forward to. Compared with the 5nm manufacturing process,The logic area efficiency of 3nm GAA technology is increased by more than 35%, power consumption is reduced by 50%, and performance is improved by about 30%.
The bad news is that if Samsung’s 3nm GAA process cannot be mass-produced until 2024, then TSMC’s 2nm process is almost mass-produced, and GAA transistor technology is also used, and Samsung’s desire to surpass TSMC may be hit.
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