Arm will only use 20nm on high-end devices

An ARM roadmap has recently been filled out showing how the company intends to adopt the manufacturing processes at 20, 16 and 10nm. It can be seen that the 20nm will only go to chips destined for high-end devices, the rest will go directly from 28 to 16 / 14nm FinFET. Currently ARM uses the 20nm only in high-end mobile devices, specifically in the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus based on the Apple A8 processor, the rest of the devices use ARM SoC manufactured at 28nm.

We now know that the 20nm will only reach very high-end mobile devices while the rest will continue to be powered by SoC at 28nm and will go directly to the 16 / 14nm FinFET. This is due to the strong demand for 20nm chips by Apple and the high amount of money that they are willing to pay for them.

It is also mentioned that the first samples of SoC at 10nm would arrive at the beginning of 2016 but that their mass production will not take place until 9-12 months later, or what is the same after half a year or the end of it.

Source: wccftech