Today announced the availability of its 7nm lead performance (7LP) FinFET semiconductor technology, with 40% of the leapfrog performance boost to meet the needs of applications such as high-end mobile processors, cloud servers and network infrastructures. Design Suite is now ready, based on 7LP technology, the first batch of customer products is expected to launch in the first half of 2018, and will be the second half of 2018 to achieve mass production.
In September 2016, the grid has announced that it will take full advantage of its high-performance chip manufacturing in the unparalleled technical accumulation, to develop their own 7-nanometer FinFET technology program. Due to the further improvement of the transistor and process level, 7LP technology is far superior to the initial performance target. Compared to the previous 14-nanometer FinFET technology, the estimated area will be reduced by half, while processing performance increased by more than 40%. At present, the technology is already ready for customer design in the world's leading Fab 8 fabs in Saratoga County, New York.
"Our 7nm FinFET technology is being developed as planned, and we see that the diversified products planned for the grid in the year 2018 are a strong attraction to our customers," said Gregg Bartlett, senior vice president of CMOS core business at QSG core. While the 7nm chips are marketed in the coming year, the grid is actively developing the next generation of 5 nanometers and its follow-up technology to ensure that our customers are able to access world-class technology blueprints in the cutting edge. "
Global Foundries will continue to invest in next-generation technology node research and development. By working closely with partners, IBM and Samsung, the grid will announce the launch of the 7-nanometer test chip by 2015. Since then, the grid core and recently announced the industry's first based on silicon nanotube transistor 5 nm sample. At present, the grid is exploring a series of new transistor architecture to help its customers into the next intelligent era of the Internet.
The 7-nm FinFET technology of the grid core takes full advantage of its mass manufacturing experience in 14nm FinFET technology, which began production at Fab 8 fabs on February 8, Since then, the grid has been a wide range of customers with a "successful" design.
In order to speed up the 7LP mass production process, the grid core is continuing to invest in the latest process equipment capabilities, including the first time in the second half of this year to buy two ultra-violet light (EUV) lithography tools. The initial mass production of 7LP will rely on traditional lithography to migrate to EUV lithography when mass production conditions are available.