DigiTimes Asia: 40nm likely to become mainstream process for car chips in 5 years

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40nm likely to become mainstream process for car chips in 5 years

Automotive chips are on track for manufacturing process upgrades, with 40nm technology likely to replace 90nm as the mainstream process node in five years, according to industry sources.

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[cliff]

I bet the old processes are needed for exotic memories (resistive RAM, etc)

 

[Paul2]

I bet the old processes are needed for exotic memories (resistive RAM, etc)

No, on the opposite. 40nm requires Renesas eFlash, and below it's often more economical to co-package a separate memory die (at a great sacrifice of performance.)

55-65nm will be more availing for low volumers for a long time since they can make cheap mask ROMs. 40nm may also get there once masksets will reach cost parity.