Qualcomm's 14nm "Taipan" Core: What We Can Expect From The Krait Successor

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Qualcomm's roadmap for 2015 is leaked and shows a surprise new custom core as Krait's successor.

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[wishmaster12]

FinFet looks interesting, if they can put more of them on one chip and get a high clock frequency without frying the chip!

 

[InvalidError]

FinFet looks interesting, if they can put more of them on one chip and get a high clock frequency without frying the chip!

Frying the chip is not going to be an issue since they will be only squeezing as much extra performance as they can within the same or preferably smaller thermal/power profile - a more power-efficient SoC means more power budget left for extra screen, talk or standby time on a given battery.

 

[aldaia]

FinFet looks interesting, if they can put more of them on one chip and get a high clock frequency without frying the chip!

Finfet has been around for quite some time. It was first proposed in 1999 by Berkley researchers. "Huang, X. et al. (1999) "Sub 50-nm FinFET: PMOS" International Electron Devices Meeting Technical Digest, p. 67. December 5–8, 1999" And later implemented by Intel in late 2011 under the name tri-gate or 3D transistors.