Intel is “two to three years behind Samsung” in the race to 1nm silicon
By 2021 Samsung expects to be a year ahead of foundry rivals TSMC, in terms of advanced process production, and two or three years ahead of technology rivals, Intel. When the Korean tech giant starts mass producing its 3nm gate-all-around lithography in two years time the competition will potentially be scrabbling around to catch up, with Samsung potentially mopping up the big chip-making contracts with its new design.
Right now TSMC is cleaning up in terms of high-performance PC chip manufacturing, with AMD adopting its 7nm process wholesale for both its upcoming Ryzen 3000 processors, as well as the incoming AMD Navi graphics cards. It has also committed to the 7nm+ process for the Zen 3 CPUs too. Nvidia is also expected to use TSMC for its next-gen graphics technology, though has reportedly already started working with Samsung on advanced nodes.
But if Samsung can indeed push its technology to the point where it has a process lead over TSMC by as much as twelve months, then a lot more of that contract work could start filtering over from Taiwan to Korea.
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