Samsung Unlocks Technology To Manufacture Faster Chips
There might be many things that smartphone tend to compete with each other about. Might be the camera, the screen, the make or any other feature. But one consistent feature over which smartphone companies have always fought about is speed. The faster a smartphone is, the more likely people would be inclined to purchase the phone.
In today’s busy world, smartphones are key. But fast smartphones are essential. If your phone is slow, then you are losing on a lot that one can accomplish on a fast phone. And Samsung has mastered doing just that. Creating a brand new chip manufacturing technique that helps phones to run faster, yet be able to maintain their battery at the same time.
Faster. Lighter. Better
How is Samsung doing that? The company is now making 7-nanometer chips that use extreme ultraviolet technology to project patterns of circuitry onto silicon wafers. Now, this process is not new as this has been in the pipeline for years. This technology has seen a ton of road-blocks in being released but has finally been able to be released.
But chips have also changed. The next generation of chips have features that are smaller than the wavelength of a traditional light. New chips take up space, and that is a problem that is been around for a while. These chips are exposed to wavelength light many many times in a process called as multi-patterning.
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But Samsung, the company that figured out the solution to this problem says that the two major challenges that were faced have been the power of the light source, and also the volume of wafers that could get processed every day. But enough with the problems. What’s with the answer? Now Samsung is getting set to put these chips up for commercialization, and also to have a 40 percent smaller surface area when compared to the previous 10-nanometer one.
This also is an answer to power consumption and also performance too. Now, power consumption can be reduced by 50 percent while performance can be boosted by 20 percent. This is a hard thing to do, but Samsung being Samsung, the company is able to do that. The company is right now the world’s biggest vendor of memory chips, and so it has all the resources and technology it needs to make this happen. And since Samsung also supplies all other companies its hardware, it won’t be long until we see this technology be adopted everywhere.
