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Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:49:23 AM
If you use the Intel’s per drawn micron metric, TSMC 16FF+ has ~10% more drive current than Intel 14nm (all other things being equal including leakage and voltage).
Well I suppose when your Finfet transistor is over 50% bigger than Intel's you have got to look for any upsides
. TSMC has a bigger problem than Intel in that Samsung's 14nm is denser than its 16FF and already in production at over 70% yield apparently and already taking away Finfet business from it before TSMC has even started Finfet production. I also suspect foundry customers are more interested in price than performance and that depends on smaller and higher yielding die sizes i.e. density where TSMC is last. Still 16FF+ sounds a nice upgrade for TSMC 28nm users for those who wish to stay with TSMC.
I think this was the article that was referred by your post but only oblique references were made to TSMC in it but I suppose it does not take much to set Nenni, the TSMC publicist/advocate, off.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/04/28/intel-corporation-a-look-at-the-new-xeon-d-process.aspx
Well I suppose when your Finfet transistor is over 50% bigger than Intel's you have got to look for any upsides
. TSMC has a bigger problem than Intel in that Samsung's 14nm is denser than its 16FF and already in production at over 70% yield apparently and already taking away Finfet business from it before TSMC has even started Finfet production. I also suspect foundry customers are more interested in price than performance and that depends on smaller and higher yielding die sizes i.e. density where TSMC is last. Still 16FF+ sounds a nice upgrade for TSMC 28nm users for those who wish to stay with TSMC. I think this was the article that was referred by your post but only oblique references were made to TSMC in it but I suppose it does not take much to set Nenni, the TSMC publicist/advocate, off.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/04/28/intel-corporation-a-look-at-the-new-xeon-d-process.aspx
