10nm New Technology! Qualcomm, Samsung and MediaTek Seize the Commanding Heights

TSMC and Samsung will mass produce 10nm new technology next year. Naturally, the next generation processors of Qualcomm, apple, Samsung and MediaTek will flock to seize the commanding height. It is said that the first will be MediaTek's new ten core Helio x30.Seeing here, AMD and NVIDIA, the two major graphics card giants, will certainly feel a little upset, because in history, they have always led the new process, especially a card, which is often the first in the industry.As a result, no one expected that in the past four or five years, both a card and N card have been pressed on the 28nm process. Because TSMC's 20nm serves Apple wholeheartedly and is specially optimized for low-power mobile processors, it is not suitable for producing high-performance GPU chips at all.

After that hard time, AMD and others came to Globalfoundries 14nm FinFET, and NVIDIA and others came to TSMC 16nm FinFET. Although the progress was much later than that of a group of mobile processors, at least some of them were used. Moreover, combined with their new architecture, the new generation of graphics cards were greatly powerful, and their performance, energy efficiency and efficiency were greatly improved. The feast of game players began again.But at least next year, both graphics cards will have to continue to use the current technology. Reliable wire reports show that NVIDIA's next-generation architecture "Volta" still uses TSMC 16nm, but even so, it is claimed that there will be a huge improvement in energy efficiency, which seems to be a great leap forward in architecture.At present, there is no knowledge about the "volt" architecture. NVIDIA only disclosed that it will use stacked DRAM, and the release time must be 2017.

The next generation of AMD's big core "Vega" is also in 2017, and the process continues to the current 14nm FinFET.It is said that AMD CPU will skip 10nm and go straight to 7Nm in the future. I wonder if GPU will do the same? In that case, there will be some waiting. GF 14nm is rapidly mature with the help of Samsung. The latter is busy with 10nm. It is not certain when it will be 7Nm. GF can only endure slowly.