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Samsung begins production of 14nm chip, or for Apple Watch

IT information head of Samsung's semiconductor business and LSI Kim Ki-nam said they had already started production for customers 14nm FinFET chip, but did not disclose the customer's name.

14nm process chip Samsung main aim is to compete with its biggest rivals TSMC (Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company) competition, which is the Taiwan chip maker.

Samsung first 14nm chip most likely two customers are Apple and Qualcomm. Reportedly ordered carries its own Apple Apple has S1 processor Watch, there are also application processor industry giant Qualcomm with some deals with Samsung, which will produce the next-generation application processor. Meanwhile, AMD new GPU may also be powered by Samsung's latest 14nm chip.

Samsung earlier this year, customers have been showing their latest technology, Samsung has also reached an agreement for the latter to Apple production A9 processors, the processor could be used for the next-generation iPhone , while the Korea giant will supply of DRAM and NAND Flash memory for Apple. Samsung said its latest 14nm FinFET processors than TSMC 20nm 20% processor performance and small size 15%, the energy consumption is also reduced by 35%.