Samsung Starts Production of its Second-Generation 10nm chips

Samsung Electronics’ S3 manufacturing line located in Hwaseong, Korea

Samsung is making sure that your current smartphone can shortly be passé by starting fabrication of its second-generation 10-nanometer chips. Dubbed 10-nanometer LPP, they will have 10 % higher performance or 15 % lower power consumption than this, 10-nanometer LPE chips. The Chips can be used on next-generation Qualcomm chips (rumored to be the Snapdragon 845) and Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus flagship phones.

The new 10-nanometer LPP chips are reportedly manufactured in much the same way as Samsung's current LPE wafers, so the little delay is expected for full volume production. Samsung has already qualified its 8-nm chips that, despite having smaller traces, are also manufactured in much the same way as its 10-nm processors.

By releasing 2 iterative versions of its current chips, Samsung is biding its time until it perfects 7-nanometer manufacturing, which needs the use of extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) lithography. because of that, increases in speed and power for your upcoming smartphone are expected to be modest -- around 10-15 % for each of the next 2 generations. Rival TSMC is supposedly ahead of Samsung in 7-nanometer chip manufacturing, creating speculation that Qualcomm might jump ship in the future.

Samsung gets a more credit for beating Intel in chip tech, but both companies are presently making modest gains, not doubling performance like we used to see. Intel has boasted, however, that it's 10-nanometer Cannon Lake tech will be a generation ahead of its main rivals, Samsung and TSMC, because it's packing more features into a similar area. both Samsung's 8-nanometer chips and Intel's 10-nanometer model's are alleged to go into manufacturing by next year.

Samsung invests in autonomous driving technology

Samsung steps up push into autonomous driving technology

    Samsung electronics Co. aforesaid Thursday it'll invest seventy five million euro ($89 million) in TTTech, a Vienna, Austria-based company that produces autonomous driving technologies and safety controls for Audi cars et al., stepping up its push into autonomous driving technology.

    The new autonomous driving investment comes when the South Korean company completed its acquisition of Harman, that makes automobile navigation systems and technology for cars to communicate with each other and infrastructure. Samsung also declared that it's created a business unit within Harman to oversee autonomous driving.

Samsung invests in  autonomous driving technology

     Samsung's investment in TTTech is that the 1st from a $300 million fund aimed toward adding to its autonomous driving technology. Samsung says the fund will invest in automotive start-ups.

     Samsung is that the world's largest maker of memory chips and smartphones. It doesn't manufacture vehicles or own an car company however it acquired licenses to control self-driving cars in South Korea and in California to check autonomous driving software package and hardware.