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Samsung's new $1.9 billion factory to produce 20nm and 14nm Exynos chips next year

Samsung's new $1.9 billion factory to produce 20nm and 14nm Exynos chips next year
Samsung is going to dip into its cash hoard and spend $1.9 billion to build a new factory that will produce 20nm and 14nm Exynos processors by next year. To put this in perspective, the current quad-core Samsung Exynos processor that drives the Samsung Galaxy S III is made using a 32nm process. Samsung Electronics’ System LSI Business president Stephen Woo says the factory needs to be built so that the Korean based manufacturer can respond to the demands of its clients and the global IT industry. Speaking of the industry, researcher Gartner says that the chip biz will grow 20% between last year and 2016 to $59.4 billion.
32nm quad-core Samsung Exynos 4412
32nm quad-core Samsung Exynos 4412
The chips leaving the factory will use less power than the current Exynos chips which is a major requirement for end users these day. And while it certainly seems at least a year away, considering that the Samsung Galaxy S III was just released overseas, we wouldn't be surprised to see the output of this factory inside the Samsung Galaxy S IV. As for the competition, Qualcomm is currently working on getting out its 28nm quad-core S4 Krait processor by the end of the year. Still, there is no word on what the company has in store for 2013. NVIDIA is working on putting peanut butter on chocolate, or in other words, integrating an LTE radio with an updated quad-core Tegra 3 processor. We might not see any 28nm Tegra chips from NVIDIA until 2013. Bottom line is that Samsung is at least a year ahead of the competition.
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