South Korean technology giant Samsung reveals that the company is set to invest $1.9 billion in next-gen chip production. The company has claimed that it will yield chips based on 20nm and 14nm process nodes by 2013.
As per reports, Samsung seems to move from Cortex-A9 to Cortex-A15-based designs with the Exynos 5 Dual. Currently, both that and some Exynos 4 components use an existing 32nm process, which is already an improvement over the previous-generations 45nm chips.
Presently, Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors are about at high-end as it gets being based on a 22nm process. Of course, these are solely developed to be put to use inside desktop PCs and laptops. As far as the mobile industry is concerned, it is Qualcomm leading the way with its 28nm S4 Snapdragon.
But with some previous reports claiming that Samsung is set to take over Qualcomm in the coming year with the creation of chipsets based on 20nm and 14nm process nodes, the power efficiencies, although it may sound a bit unrealistic, will be quite amazing.
Samsung’s latest chipset, the Exynos 4 Quad, is based on a 32nm process and, although it is extremely powerful, will look pale in comparison to the Moore’s Law-resisting 20 and 14nm chipsets Samsung has planned for 2013.
Although a quick arrival of both 20nm and 14nm Chipsets is a bit too much to ask, if things work out as planned, both of them could arrive before 2014, according to a Know your Mobile report.
