Samsung Foundry has unveiled its new roadmap for chipmaking process technologies at the Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) U.S. During the forum it outlined plans for 2nm-class nodes, a 1.4-nm-class node, and production technologies with backside power delivery that will be available to its customers in the next three years.
In 2025, Samsung will launch its SF2 node, previously known as SF3P, which demonstrated power, performance, and area (PPA) which the company attributes to 2nm-class process technologies. This manufacturing process is designed primarily for high-performance computing and smartphone applications and therefore Samsung pins a lot of hopes on it. Also, having a 2nm-class node in 2025 formally puts Samsung ahead of TSMC, which will start making chips on its N2 process only in late 2025. Yet, this renaming once again highlights that nanometers hardly matter today.
