Samsung expects to mass-produce second-generation 3nm chips in 2024

27 Apr. (Portaltic/EP) –

Samsung Electronics has announced that it expects to mass-produce second-generation 3 nanometer (nm) processors in 2024, while currently producing first-generation and advancing development of 2nm chips.

The company has announced this Thursday the financial results of its first quarter of 2023, which ended on March 31, and in which it has commented on its plans short term.

for now, in the second quarter of 2023 it will focus on boosting technological competitiveness, including the development process of the 2nm chip based on ‘gate-all-around’ (GAA), while meets the demand for DDR5, LPDDR5x memory and other high-end products.

GAA is a manufacturing process that allows high power currents to be handled with smaller silicon components or elements.

According to Samsung, the basic infrastructure of these processor designs “has recently shown significant silicon results and development progress is on track.”

As to 3nm Processors, the manufacturer has said that the foundry business is mass-producing this first-generation GAA-based chip “with stable returns throughout the quarter.”

For their part, second-generation 3nm processors, which require “low-power and high-performance characteristics in mobile applications and high-performance computing (HPC),” will be mass-produced in 2024.