TSMC Showing 20nm HKMG and 16nm FinFET Wafers at ARM TechCon

[Tha Last Meal]

good news

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is at ARM TechCon showing off 20nm Soc and 16nm FinFET-based development wafers. The 20 and 16nm nodes both posed significant hurdles for TSMC, so to see wafers being produced on those nodes is a good sign. The 20nm node is the first to use double patterning, requiring more masks and additional runs under an immersion lithography machine. The 16nm node represents TSMC?s first use of FinFETs (multi-gate or tri-gate architectures) for even lower power use and higher performance.

TSMC has taped out several 20nm HKMG processor designs and is ready for volume production in early 2014. TSMC expects to let customers start designing and taping out 16nm FinFET chips before the end of the year and production 16nm FinFET wafers to enter production a year later in Q1 2015.

http://www.legitreviews.com/tsmc-sho...techcon_127568

[zalbard]

ARM? Pfff. Bring on 20nm GPUs!

[vitchilo]

Pfff! Bring on 16nm GPUs! And 16nm CPU... make the CPU THICKER so that they pack more punch...

[stuffme]

What is that finFET hype? Is it some earlier type production mode so you can do not so complex production whit that and after more mature, move on to processor scale?

[EniGmA1987]

make the CPU THICKER so that they pack more punch...

lol wut? A thicker CPU would mean the transistors on the bottom layers would just stay hotter, which means hotter cores

[Iconyu]

lol wut? A thicker CPU would mean the transistors on the bottom layers would just stay hotter, which means hotter cores

Heh, where do you think you are? We'll just put a fan on the back of the mobo!

[DeathReborn]

lol wut? A thicker CPU would mean the transistors on the bottom layers would just stay hotter, which means hotter cores

Carbon Nano Tubes = Cooling taken care of.

[vitchilo]

Just watercool that stuff! Instead of making flat CPU, make them into a cube! Instead of being able to cool only one surface, you'll have 5! Way more efficient! Founders will be able to get us even more powerful CPU/GPUs with the same ratio for each wafer...

[PatRaceTin]

Expect some heat

[hecktic]

ah sorry for silly question but what is "ARM TechCon" ? and who can attend ?

[Tha Last Meal]

ah sorry for silly question but what is "ARM TechCon" ? and who can attend ?

Ranked one of the top three must-attend events in the embedded industry, ARM? TechCon™ is more than a conference. ARM TechCon’s unique 360-degree interactive training ground seeded to connect, instruct, advise and enable the world of electronic and ARM-based computer design provides attendees with a comprehensive understanding of ARM-based technology.

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Vice President-IT, Vice President, Director
Manager of E-Business/E-Commerce
Director-IT/Manager-IT
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SiP
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System Architect
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http://www.armtechcon.com/

[hecktic]

Thank you very much sir

ARM TechCon Is Designed For:

ASIC/FPGA Engineers
Chief Hacker/Wizard
Chip Architects & Designers
CIO/CTO/CSO/CISO,
Executive/Senior VP
Vice President-IT, Vice President, Director
Manager of E-Business/E-Commerce
Director-IT/Manager-IT
Design & Development Engineers
Embedded Software Engineers
Hardware Engineers

OEM System Designer
Operator/Carrier
SiP
Software Architects Developers & Engineers
App and Game Developers
System Design and Processor Design Engineers
System Architect
Systems Analyst
VP/Director of Hardware Engineering
VP/Director of Software Engineering

http://www.armtechcon.com/