10nm Chips Promise Lower Costs

Handel Jones, International Business Strategies Inc.
6/15/2015 07:00 AM EDT

The challenges in the supply chain logistics for semiconductors continue to increase, but the 10nm node will give one more opportunity to gain large benefits from technology scaling.

In March 2012, International Business Strategies (IBS) projected that gate costs at 20nm and 16/14nm would be higher than previous generations of technology. The analysis of the gate cost for 10nm now exhibits a different pattern, shown in the figure below.

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