In a recent keynote, Siyoung Choi, the head of Samsung Foundry's business unit, announced that Samsung Foundry is on track to mass produce chips using its 2nm manufacturing process in the second half of 2025. The announcement indicates that Samsung Foundry will continue to develop cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and compete with Intel and TSMC, so that with its 2nm it would have an advantage over them.
The 2 nm will represent the third generation of process technologies applied by GAA. Samsung expects the industry transition to 2nm to be smooth based on past experience with 3nm, and in preparation for that future, Samsung Foundry will continue to strengthen its competencies in process technologies.
In four years, it will be manufactured in 2 nanometers
Samsung hasn't revealed the quirks of its 2nm class manufacturing technology, but a new node is expected to bring performance, power and transistor density improvements. They also did not specify at Samsung if their 2nm process will be derived from their 3nm nodes or will be a new branch.
Samsung Foundry was the first chipmaker to announce the transition to gate-all-around field-effect transistors thanks to its 3GAE and 3GAP manufacturing processes. Its 3GAE node has been delayed, but its mass production will begin in the first half of 2022. They have also completed development of their first 3GAA test chip, so it is preparing for mass production.
By the time Samsung's 2nm class technology enters mass production in the second half of 2025, its third-generation GAA node will rely on multi-bridge channel field-effect transistors. Then they will have experience with the new type of transistors, which should give better performance, higher transistor density, some power or performance benefits. if this forecast goes ahead, we would have these 2-nanometer process chips on the market by 2026 at the earliest after several months of mass production, and shipping to manufacturers and retailers.
Source: Tom's Hardware
