South Korean company Samsung has become the first company to mass produce advanced 3nm chips.
Samsung’s Hwaseong Semiconductor manufacturing plant in South Korea and Pyeongtaek Circuit, the world’s largest semiconductor factory, will produce 3nm chips. Samsung’s third chip factory, the Pyeongtaek factory, was also visited by US President Joe Biden during his visit in May.
Samsung Foundry announced on Thursday that it has begun mass production of the first generation 3nm chip based on the new FinFET transistor technology GAA (Gate-All-Around) transistor structure. Compared to 5nm technology, 3nm chips have 23% better performance. Power consumption is 45% lower and the screen area can be reduced by 16%.
The GAA transistor design shrinks the transistor site without affecting the current carrying capacity of the transistor. In the second generation 3nm node produced by Samsung, the power consumption is 50% lower than the current 5nm technology, the performance is 30% better, and the screen area can be reduced by 30%.
Samsung announced last year that it would invest up to 171 trillion won ($132 billion) in its logic chip and foundry industries by 2030. Samsung is also working to build a semiconductor factory in Texas, USA, at a cost of $17 billion. The fact that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). A leading chipmaker can produce the advanced 3nm chip first has become an important milestone for Samsung.