Samsung denies problems with production 10nm socs like Snapdragon 835 and Exynos 9

Samsung denies that there are problems with the yields in the production of chips on its first generation of the 10nm process. At the end of this year, the manufacturer wants to start producing the second generation of chips at 10nm, with the third generation to follow next year.

Samsung says it has been able to produce more than 70,000 wafers of 10nm chips and mentions that there are “stable high yields” in production. In addition, the processor maker could meet the “high customer demand” in time.

With this, the manufacturer directly denies rumors about disappointing yields at 10nm. Those rumors seemed to be confirmed when it turned out that Samsung will present its Galaxy S8 later in the year than it has done with its Galaxy S devices in recent years. Moreover, at the telecom fair Mobile World Congress, few smartphones with 10nm-socs appeared to be released quickly. Sony did present the Xperia XZ Premium with Snapdragon 835-soc, but the release is said to follow at the end of spring. Devices like the LG G6 have a soc on board that Samsung makes using its 14nm process.

In principle, a smaller process means that the SOC can be more economical, but in 2017 calculating with nodes has become tricky business. Samung started mass production of socs at 10nm last fall. The first of these are Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 and Samsung’s own Exynos 9 8895. Both will presumably be in variants of the Galaxy S8. In recent years, the Snapdragon version was released in the United States, among others, while Europe received the Exynos variant.