{"id":3550,"date":"2021-08-30T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2021-08-30T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T16:01:36","slug":"samsung-successfully-completes-8nm-rf-solution-development-to-strengthen-5g-communications-chip-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=3550","title":{"rendered":"Samsung successfully completes 8nm RF solution development to strengthen 5G communications chip solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New 8nm RF chip architecture provides up to 35 percent increase in power efficiency and 35 percent decrease in logic area compared to 14nm RF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, introduces its newest radio frequency (RF) technology based on 8-nanometer (nm) process.<br \/>\nThis cutting-edge foundry technology is expected to provide a \u2018one chip solution,\u2019 specifically for 5G communications with support for multi-channel and multi-antenna chip designs. Samsung\u2019s 8nm RF platform extension is expected to expand the company\u2019s leadership in the 5G semiconductor market from sub-6GHz to mmWave applications.<br \/>\nSamsung\u2019s 8nm RF process technology is the latest addition to an already broad portfolio of RF-related solutions, including 28nm- and 14nm-based RF. The company has established its RF market leadership through the shipping of more than 500 million mobile RF chips for premium smartphones since 2017.<br \/>\n\u201cThrough excellence in innovation and process manufacturing, we\u2019ve reinforced our next-generation wireless communication offerings,\u201d said Hyung Jin Lee, Master of Foundry Technology Development Team at Samsung Electronics. \u201cAs 5G mmWave expands, Samsung\u2019s 8nm RF will be a great solution for customers looking for long battery life and excellent signal quality on compact mobile devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Samsung\u2019s New RFeFET&#x2122; Architecture<\/strong><br \/>\nWith continued scaling to advanced nodes, digital circuits have improved significantly in performance, power consumption, and area (PPA), whereas the analog\/RF blocks haven\u2019t enjoyed such an improvement due to degenerative parasitics such as increased resistance from narrow line width. As a result, most communications chips tend to see degraded RF characteristics such as deteriorated amplification performance of reception frequency and increased power consumption.<br \/>\nTo overcome the analog\/RF scaling challenges, Samsung has developed a unique architecture exclusive to 8nm RF named RFextremeFET (RFeFET&#x2122;) that can significantly improve RF characteristics while using less power. In comparison to 14nm RF, Samsung\u2019s RFeFET&#x2122; supplements the digital PPA scaling and restores the analog\/RF scaling at the same time, thereby enabling high-performance 5G platforms.<br \/>\nSamsung\u2019s process optimization maximizes channel mobility while minimizing parasitics. As the performance of RFeFET&#x2122; is greatly improved, the total number of transistors of RF chips and the area of analog\/RF blocks can be reduced.<br \/>\nCompared to 14nm RF, Samsung\u2019s 8nm RF process technology provides up to a 35-percent increase in power efficiency with a 35-percent decrease in the RF chip area as a result of the RFeFET&#x2122; architectural innovation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Above, image credited to Samsung<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New 8nm RF chip architecture provides up to 35 percent increase in power efficiency and 35 percent decrease in logic area compared to 14nm RF Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, introduces its newest radio frequency (RF) technology based on 8-nanometer (nm) process. This cutting-edge foundry technology is expected to provide a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=3550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00abSamsung successfully completes 8nm RF solution development to strengthen 5G communications chip solutions\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}