MediaTek to continue using TSMC’s 16 and 10 nm chips

With MediaTek's Helio X20 made on TSMC's 20 nm procedure, along with Helio P10, which was processed on the visitor's 28 nm procedure, it is safe to state that MediaTek was formed a long-term bond with TSMC, which lays balance to whatsoever rumors that the scrap designer was going to switch sides to Samsung for its xiv nm FinFET procedure. With that long-term bond, both MediaTek will definitely be tapping TSMC for its xvi and 10 nm chips. Samsung might take won the 14 nm FinFET race, but for 10 nm and 16 nm, it is a whole different ball game birthday.

MediaTek Will Not Be Making A sixteen-Processor Cadre Chipset, Simply Partnership With TSMC Is Here To Stay

EEtimes reports that according to MediaTek CFO David Ku, the business firm will continue to utilise Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company as its foundry for its leading edge chips. Ku expresses that TSMC has treated MediaTek as a respectful client when he says:

"TSMC'south support has been first-class."

Analysts reported before that thank you to Samsung's 14 nm FinFET procedure, TSMC was expected to lose out on a lot of pricing power and customers later on its monopoly was diminished by the South Korean tech behemoth. When broached about the subject that concerning what MediaTek would practice if there were large chip orders, the executive stated that the company will non stay its hand from using other foundries if the need scales to a level that cannot be met by TMSC.

Earlier this month, it was reported that TSMC was expected to constitute a 10 nm pilot line in 12 factories for Apple's A10 SoC production, which would be commencing past end of June 2022. If MediaTek is able to go along to its timetable, it is highly possible that the company volition be taking care of all chip orders from Apple, which will eventually dethrone Samsung's monopoly in the near futurity.

Additionally, there were also rumors that MediaTek was working on a 16-cadre CPU, which would succeed the deca-cadre processor establish in Helio X20. At this signal, Fifty-fifty MediaTek would have thought that this would be going way out of proportion, and has therefore dismissed the rumor. Right now, the only lifeline that TSMC has is keeping its timeframe in check, otherwise it could end up losing future orders to Samsung once more.

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