ARM Partnered With TSMC For 10nm FinFET Processors
US based chipmaker, ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have announced a new multi-year agreement for the development of ARM-based processors, which are based on the 10nm FinFet process technology of TSMC.
Both companies said that success in scaling from 20nm based SoC to 16nm FinFET and the popularity of such technology influenced the new deal, and both ARM and TSMC will collaborate again for 10nm FinFET. The 10nm FinFet designs will complete in as early as fourth quarter of 2015. Therefore, we are unlikely to see the first 10nm based processor in the near future.
TSMC is currently working on the 20nm based SoCs for Apple and Qualcomm. The production of 16nm based processors will start in early 2015 next year. TSMC will base the new networking chips on 20nm SoC and 16nm FinFET in the ARM ecosystem in order to improve both performance and power consumption levels in next generation hardware.
Intel has announced its plans for 14nm Soc earlier this year and the computer chipmaker is expected to introduce the 10nm based processors in 2016. Samsung and GlobalFoundries are working on the 14nm based processors, but no further information available.
Pete Hutton, Executive Vice President and President of Product Groups at ARM said “ARM and TSMC are industry leaders in our respective fields and collectively ensure the availability of leading-edge solutions for ARM-based SoCs through our deep and long-term collaboration.
Our mutual commitment to providing industry leading solutions drives us to work together early in the development cycle to optimize both the processor and the process node. This joint optimization enables ARM silicon partners to design, tape-out and bring their products to market faster.”
“TSMC has continuously been the lead foundry to introduce advanced process technology for ARM-based SoCs,” said Dr. Cliff Hou, TSMC vice president of R&D. “Together with ARM, we proved out in silicon the high performance and low power of the big.LITTLE architecture as implemented in 16FinFET. Given the successful adoption of our previous collaborative efforts, it makes sense that we continue this fruitful partnership with ARM in future 64-bit cores and 10FinFET.”
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