Samsung details upcoming 2nm nodes, talks of future 1.4nm nodes (coming in 2029)‎

At the SAFE Forum (Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem), Samsung revealed its plans for future semiconductor nodes. Last year, the company unveiled the Exynos 2600, the first 2nm smartphone chip – this one was made on the SF2 node as Samsung calls it. Next up is SF2P, which will reduce power consumption by 26% and raise clock speeds by 15%. The new node is only partially responsible for these improvements. Shin Jong-shin, VP of the Design Platform Development Team at Samsung Foundry, attributes more than half of the gains to DTCO. DTCO, or Design-Technology Co-Optimization, is a...