Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in superior semiconductor generation, today introduced its ongoing commitment to foundry innovation and provider at the Samsung 
Foundry Forum 2019 USA, supplying the silicon community with extensive-ranging updates on era advances that guide the most traumatic applications of nowadays and the next day.
President ES Jung at Samsung Foundry Forum 2019 (Photo: Business Wire)
The event, held nowadays in Santa Clara, California, features pinnacle Samsung executives and industry experts reviewing development on semiconductor technologies and foundry platform answers that enable tendencies in artificial intelligence (AI), gadget studying, 5G networking, automotive, the Internet of Things (IoT), superior records facilities and many different domains.
“We stand on the verge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a brand new technology of excessive-overall performance computing and connectivity so that it will enhance each day lives of all of us on the earth,” said Dr. ES Jung, President and head of Foundry Business at Samsung Electronics.
“Samsung Electronics absolutely is familiar with that accomplishing effective and dependable silicon solutions requires no longer best the most advanced production and packaging processes in addition to layout answers, however also collaborative foundry-customer relationships grounded on agreeing with and shared imaginative and prescient. This 12 months’ Foundry Forum is packed with compelling proof of our dedication to development in all those regions, and we’re venerated to host and converse with our enterprise’s excellent and brightest,” Dr. Jung added.
Highlights from the U.S. Foundry Forum consist of:
The new 3nm GAE PDK model 0.1 is ready
Samsung’s 3nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) manner, 3GAE, development is on the right track. The company cited these days that its Process Design Kit (PDK) model 0.1 for 3GAE has been released in April to assist customers to get an early start at the design work and permit progressed layout competitiveness together with decreased turnaround time (TAT).
Compared to a 7nm technology, Samsung’s 3GAE process is designed to offer up to a 45 percent discount in chip area with a 50 percent decrease energy intake or 35 percentage better performance. The GAA-based technique node is expected to be broadly adopted in subsequent-technology programs, including cell, community, automobile, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IoT.
Conventional GAA based on nanowire calls for a bigger variety of stacks because of its small powerful channel width. On the opposite hand, Samsung’s patented version of GAA, MBCFET™ (Multi-Bridge-Channel FET), makes use of a nanosheet architecture, allowing more modern-day according to stack.
While FinFET systems need to modulate the wide variety of fins in a discrete way, MBCFET™ presents extra design flexibility by way of controlling the nanosheet width. In addition, MBCFET™’s compatibility with FinFET methods means the two can proportion the identical production generation and equipment, which quickens system improvement and production ramp-up.
Samsung lately taped out the 3GAE take a look at automobile layout and will attend on enhancing its performance and energy efficiency going forward.
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The launching of a brand new SAFE™-Cloud software
As part of its ongoing efforts to aid and enhance customers’ complete layout workflow, Samsung Electronics launched the Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem Cloud (SAFE™-Cloud) program. It will offer customers with a greater flexible layout environment thru collaboration with important public cloud service carriers, inclusive of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, in addition to main Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies, which includes Cadence and Synopsys.
To date, most foundry customers have built and managed design infrastructure on their personal servers. The SAFE™-Cloud software reduces this burden and supports easier, faster and greater green design efforts with the aid of offering a high-quality turnkey layout environment with huge manner records (PDK, layout methodologies), EDA tools, design belongings (IP, library) and design offerings.
Customers may be confident of as plenty server and garage area as they want, as well as a secure surrounding optimized for chip design, because of Samsung Electronics’ verification of SAFE™-Cloud’s protection, applicability, and expandability.
Utilizing the SAFE™-Cloud platform, Samsung changed into capable of accelerating the improvement of its 7nm and 5nm cellular libraries in collaboration with Synopsys. In addition, Samsung, Gaonchips – a fabless layout agency in Korea – and Cadence have effectively finished design verification based totally at the platform.
“Making up-front investments in high-overall performance computing (HPC) servers and structures can be a venture for an agency like us,” said Kyu-Dong Jung, CEO of Gaonchips. “SAFE™-Cloud gives us a completely bendy layout environment without requiring investment in extra infrastructure, in addition to reduced design TAT. I assume this applies to provide greater tangible enterprise and technical blessings to us and the whole fabless industry.”
Process generation roadmap and superior packaging updates
Samsung’s roadmap includes 4 FinFET-based totally processes from 7nm down to 4nm that leverage intense ultraviolet (EUV) era as well as 3nm GAA, or MBCFET™.
In the second 1/2 of this 12 months, Samsung is scheduled to begin the mass production of 6nm system devices and complete the development of the 4nm procedure.
The product design of Samsung’s 5nm FinFET process, which became developed in April, is expected to be finished within the 2nd half of-this year and cross beneath mass production inside the first 1/2 of 2020.
Extensions of the agency’s FD-SOI (FDS) manner and MRAM collectively with a multiplied set of today’s package deal answers had been additionally unveiled at this yr’s Foundry Forum. Development of the successor to the 28FDS system, 18FDS, and MRAM with 1Gb capacity may be completed this year.
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