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Reports have come out that Samsung's enhanced 4nm process has better yields and the chips they've churned out (so far at least) don't have any blaring problems.
Not sure how all this works but my biggest hope is that Samsung's 3nm GAA is a homerun and AMD can jump on it.
Eh I don't know.
Tensor G3 is made on Samsung 4LPP and they borked the CPU efficiency:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/17747nx/golden_reviewer_tensor_g3_cpu/
Maybe the enhanced process is 4lpp+
How much of that is design vs. node? LPP is two years old, and 4nm gen 3 is supposed to significantly reduce power.
Samsung's SF4X process technology promises to deliver a 10% improvement in performance along with a 23% reduction in power consumption. While Samsung has not disclosed the baseline for this comparison, it is likely in reference to their standard SF4 (4LPP) proces.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21119/samsungs-nextgen-3nm-and-4nm-nodes-on-track-for-mass-production-in-2h-2024
Glaring problems. Not blaring, although blaring sort of works I guess.
One would be visual the other sonic?
Coil whine could be a blaring problem if it's bad enough
I want to believe~
It would be nice if the article told us which flavor of SF4 the chips would allegedly use!
Has Samsung done any high-clocked chips so far? Desktop chips tend to run faster and I feel like Samsung hasn't proven themselves for this particular use-case.