Samsung Announces December Production for Next-Gen Mobile, Computing SoC

Samsung Electronics said Wednesday its second-generation 10-nanometer FinFET process technology, 10LPP, has been qualified and is expected to be ready for production by Q4. The 10LPP process, geared to high-performance mobile, computing and network applications, is said to offer 10 percent higher performance or 15 percent lower power consumption than the first-generation 10LPE process with the same area scaling. Some of Samsung’s Galaxy S8 smartphones use 10LPE SoCs, which went into mass production in October, said the company.