Samsung Vows to Surpass TSMC...

Samsung's head of semiconductor unit, Dr. Kye Hyun Kyung, has acknowledged that the company's current mass production process technologies are a couple of years behind TSMC's most advanced production nodes. However, Samsung is working hard to catch up with TSMC in five years. Samsung has been investing heavily in its foundry division to catch up with TSMC and Intel in terms of production capacity for LSI chips and process technology advantages. Samsung Foundry's most advanced technology is significantly behind TSMC's N3 and N4P nodes, but Samsung plans to offer SF4X (4HPC), a 4 nm-class fabrication technology, to address high-performance CPUs and GPUs around the same time TSMC offers its more advanced N3P manufacturing technology. Samsung reportedly believes that transitioning to GAA transistors makes sense since it will have time to fix teething problems of the new architecture ahead of its rivals.