Samsung Delivers Its 14 nm

Kevin Gibb, TechInsights
EETimes (4/9/2015 03:53 PM EDT)

How makers' marks on Samsung's Exynos 7420 reveals that Intel's lead is shrinking.

So here it is, Samsung’s Exynos 7420 fabbed with a 14 nm finFET process. But whose 14 nm process was a question raised a few days ago with the speculation that the “ALB” package marking denoting Albany and perhaps the “G” denoting GlobalFoundries. We at TechInsights thought it worthwhile to take a look at some older Exynos processors to see if there are some common links. So Figures 2 through 5 are package photographs of the Exynos 4412, 5410, 5430 and 5433, respectively.

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