Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced that it has begun mass production of advanced logic chips utilizing its 14nm LPP (Low-Power Plus) process, the 2nd generation of the company's 14nm FinFET process technology. In leading mass production of advanced FinFET logic process, Samsung announced in first quarter of 2015 the launch of the Exynos 7 Octa processor built on the industry's first 14nm LPE (Low-Power Early) process.

With the new 14nm LPP process, Samsung continues to demonstrate its process technology leadership, and unparalleled performance and power efficiency for its Exynos 8 Octa processor and its many foundry customers including Qualcomm Technologies Inc. The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 820 processor uses Samsung's new 14nm LPP process and is expected to be in devices in the first half of 2016. Incorporating three-dimensional (3D) FinFET structure on transistors enables significant performance boost and low power consumption. Samsung's new 14nm LPP process delivers up to 15% higher speed and 15% less power consumption over the previous 14nm LPE process through improvements in transistor structure and process optimization.

In addition, use of fully-depleted FinFET transistors brings enhanced manufacturing capabilities to overcome scaling limitations. With its superb characteristics, 14nm FinFET process is considered to be one of the most optimized solutions for mobile and IoT applications and is expected to meet growing market demand for a wide range of high performance and power efficient applications from network to automotive.