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Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 625, 425 & 435 Mid- and Low-End SoCs
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10030/qualcomm-announces-snapdragon-625-425-435-mid-and-lowend-socs

The biggest surprise out of today's announcements is the fact that the Snapdragon 625 is manufactured on Samsung's/GlobalFoundry's 14nm LPP process. Qualcomm thus is the first vendor to announce a non-high-end SoC to use a new FinFET manufacturing process which is quite astonishing as I hadn't expected vendors be able to do the migration so early on in the technology's lifetime, which may be a positive indicator that we might be seeing FinFET adopted across the mid-range earlier than expected.