Samsung Completes Qualification of 8nm LPP Process

Samsung said that it has now fully qualified its 8-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology, called 8LPP (Low Power Plus), three months ahead of its plan. The process is said to have 10% lower power consumption than 10LPP and is the last process to be used before extreme ultraviolet lithography needs to be used at 7nm, and is a scaled version of the 10nm process, so a fast ramp is expected.