Samsung To Fabricate RISC-V Chip With 14LPP In Partnership With SemiFive

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wccftech.com, Oct. 14, 2019 – 

Earlier this month, a single report from China claimed that Samsung will make a big change on its next Exynos processor, tentatively dubbed as the Exynos 9830. The report claimed that the Korean tech giant will not customize ARM's Cortex A77 designs for the SoC. Instead, Samsung will use four Cortex A77 and four Cortex A55 cores, unlike its predecessor.

Now we've got another report, this time from South Korea, that suggests a new development at Samsung's foundry business. The company will now fabricate non-ARM IP with its foundry in collaboration with the processor design company SemiFive. Take a look below for more details.

Samsung Will Use Its 14nm LPP Node For Fabricating RISC-V Based Chip In First Deviation From ARM Designs

If anything, the race between Android and iOS processors is controversial. Apple being Apple has taken the custom-design approach that has allowed it to slowly build its processor design capability to a level where the iPad Pro can effectively compete with low-end notebooks in some areas.

This performance boost receives its own set of criticism from Android and x86 camps. Both claim that iOS is optimized to run benchmarking tests, and therefore the gain showed by popular platforms such as GeekBench is more due to Apple's software being finetuned for the app.

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