New 16nm Fin FET+ technology

Yesterday, TSMC announced that it has already started trial production for new 16nm FinFET Plus process technology. 16nm FinFET Plus is the enhanced edition of 16nm FinFET. It can enhance the performance by 40% and power consumption is reduced by 50% compared with 20nm FinFET process.

This new 16nm FinFET Plus process has already been passed on 64 bit ARM framework. The frequency of Cortex A57 can be 2.3GHz, and Cortex A53 power consumption can be 75mW. And the conformity rate is also good.

As estimation, it will finish all reliability compliance in Nov. According the current condition, new process technology can be adopted in next July.

Now, many TSMC's clinets, like LG, Avago, MTK, Nvidia etc are quite interested in this new process. And they have already started to prepare new products based on this new technology.

Maybe in next year, we will see some tablets or smart phones based on this 16nm FinFET Plus process technology.