TSMC, Samsung 10nm production process has entered the countdown stage, Apple A11 / A10X, Huawei Unicorn 970, Qualcomm Xiaolong 835, MediaTek Helio X30, etc. a new flagship chip are also highly anticipated.

According to the plan, Apple’s next-generation iPad processor A10X will be the first in March 2017 TSMC production in the second quarter will continue to mass production of iPhone 8 processor A11, several other are also arranged in the first half of next year.

However, according to the latest news from Taiwan media, TSMC, Samsung 10nm process yields are not as expected, production is facing an embarrassing situation, and even affected the future of new technology research and development. ms3348-8-10

TSMC has been a senior R & D director Wu Xian Yang (16 / 7nm) and Cao Min (20 / 10nm) turns the leader, but the future 5nm to March this year before joining the TSMC R & D department of the former Qualcomm senior technology Director Geoffrey Yeap. TSMC plans to mass production in 2020 5nm, and then Intel is also expected to launch 7nm, in order to better than rival TSMC will be launched a lot of new technologies, including optical / UV lithography, germanium / 35 materials instead of silicon and so on.

Samsung, said its 10nm yield is not even as TSMC, leading to high tension and the relationship is very tight.

Qualcomm because of dissatisfaction with the progress of TSMC and defected to Samsung, 14nm on the co-operative fairly happy, so continue on the 10nm, is expected to return to TSMC 7nm, Samsung 10nm is not smooth, leading to Qualcomm chips have to return next year 14nm, such as Xiao Long 660. ms-470n