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Qualcomm unveils 10nm Snapdragon 835 Mobile Processor with Quick Charge 4.0

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Qualcomm has announced its next-generation smartphone processor named "Snapdragon 835". This new chip will be manufactured based on the revolutionary 10nm FinFET process of Samsung Electronics. Snapdragon 835 has Qulcomm's latest Quick Charge 4.0 technology .

These processors are made of nanomaterials—molecules and atoms less than 100 nanometers (nm) in size that exhibit different properties than their larger-particle counterparts: some enhanced nanomaterial characteristics include lighter weight, higher strength, and greater chemical reactivity. Because of these special qualities, nanomaterials have the potential to transform a number of industries from consumer tech to energy and health.

So exactly how small is 10nm? It’s the size of a single water molecule or 1,000 times smaller than a strand of hair. Chips at the 10nm size have a significantly smaller footprint than their 14nm predecessors, which means device manufacturers have more usable space to support larger batteries or slimmer phone designs.
 
According to wikipedia this processor should have frequency up to 3.60 GHz, which is pretty amazing.

Part of this will be thanks to 10nm, and part of it thanks to A73 core desing, which is not as wide as A72.

For comparison, Mediatek Helio X30 is expected to have 2.8 GHz A73 cores, but i am sure that there will be 3+ GHz versions too (Helio X35 probably).
 
It is interesting to see Bloomberg's uninformed take on this:

TSMC's Pain Is Apple's Gain - Bloomberg Gadfly

Meanwhile back at SemiWiki we know that QCOM left TSMC at 14nm do to wafer competition with Apple at 20nm (Apple got MFN status over QCOM). We also know that QCOM is back at TSMC for 7nm while Apple is at TSMC for 10nm and 7nm.

Who will be first to 10nm? TSMC moved 10nm from Fab 12 to production Fab 15 in Taichung last month and Intel also moved 10nm from OR to Israel. The Apple A11 is already in production at TSMC 10nm as well as the Mediatek Helio X30. Given that I would call it a three-way tie.

The tie breaker will be TSMC 7nm which will be out in Q4 2017. Hopefully GlobalFoundries has 7nm ready by then or it will be a one horse race.
 
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Daniel, Scotten estimated that at 10nm , transistor costs will fall below 28nm. Do we know anything about that today , or is it too early ?
 
Joe Talin said:
Daniel, Scotten estimated that at 10nm , transistor costs will fall below 28nm. Do we know anything about that today , or is it too early ?
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I agree Daniel, the topic of cost per transistor hasn't been discussed here at SW for quite some time now.

I, for one, would love to read what is the latest actual and forecasted cost/transistor figures from 28nm down to 7nm. If you could please tip up the experts in this topic to write about it at SW, it would be great.

Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for your fantastic work at this site.
 
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