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0 pointsysleepy7y ago0 comments

What advantage would the 10nm process have for base stations? Possibly in the micro-cell stuff for 5G, but none of this runs on battery. Established 16 or 28nm processes are cheap and run smoothly.

I read an interview with GlobalFoundries which talked about different process node characteristics. [1]

Who would really benefit from the 10nm process? Mobile SoCs, basebands/modems and AI chips. There has to be a high performance and low power requirement to justify being an early adopter of a new process.

Or intel aggressively misled fab customers about the progress of their 10nm efforts.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12438/the-future-of-silicon-a...

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kingosticks7y ago

I'm not sold on it being Nokia, but from their 5g chipset page:

> ReefShark packs more functionality into 50 percent smaller hardware compared to products that use discrete components > ReefShark chipset decreases mMIMO antenna size by half >ReefShark cuts energy use by 85 percent, increasing deployment options >Boosts the intelligence and performance of MIMO antennas

So density and power. This chipset would be around for a long time, it makes sense to be on the latest process.

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