Samsung Foundry, a subsidiary of semiconductor chip maker Samsung, was recently reported to be testing the production of their second generation 3nm chips developed with their latest 3nm process called SF3.
Samsung is now seen to be testing the performance of semiconductor chips developed with this process, and expects that within six months of testing, 60 percent of the chips manufactured with this process will be widely used.
It is also reported that this SF3 process will be used to develop the application processor that will be used in the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 smart watch that will be launched later and also for the production of the Samsung Exynos 2500 chip that will be used in their Samsung Galaxy S25 device next year.
Now in the trial production phase, Samsung is expected to start large-scale production using the SF3 process in the middle of this year. This is not surprising because the frequency of production of new devices means that these semiconductor chip companies need to be able to produce these components not only quickly, but also at a high production rate.