Samsung Foundry’s second-generation 8LPU+ platform targets automotive, robotics and edge AI chips that do not need leading-edge nodes.
Samsung Foundry has launched 8LPU+, a second-generation extension of its 8nm process aimed at automotive, robotics and edge AI chips that do not need the most advanced nodes. The process runs on existing deep ultraviolet (DUV) lines, so Samsung and its customers avoid the cost of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.
Samsung says 8LPU+ delivers 12% more performance, 15% lower power consumption and an 8% smaller logic area than the previous generation.
The process is aimed at carmakers moving to more centralised electronic architectures, which need more processing power to control functions across the vehicle. Much of that work can be done without 2nm-class silicon.
Samsung’s 8nm node already has an automotive track record, since Nvidia’s Drive Orin is built on it. Extending a mature node lets Samsung compete for automotive business where cost and reliability matter more than transistor density, at a time when it is struggling to keep pace with TSMC at the leading edge.
Source: Samsung Foundry
