Samsung’s 3nm Yields, Which Were At An Abysmal 20 Percent Previously, Have Increased By Three Times But Still Trails Behind TSMC, Claims Tipster

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Samsung’s struggles in bringing up the yields of its 3nm GAA process were well-known, but there is a positive update that a tipster provided, claiming that the Korean giant’s foundry has managed to increase that number to three times the original figure. This means that the previous 10-20 percent yields of the 3nm process is now hovering between 30-60 percent. While these are improvements, the company continues to trail behind TSMC, and there are rumors claiming that Samsung placed more stock in its second-generation 3nm GAA process.

Second-generation 3nm GAA node rumored to be more promising, with Samsung seemingly targeting TSMC’s N3P technology

With TSMC aggressively scaling its 3nm wafer production to an estimated 100,000 monthly units this year, Samsung has little chance of catching up to its foundry rival. Then again, for the past few years, the Taiwanese semiconductor behemoth has seen little to no competition in this space, but Samsung continues to make remarkable efforts, regardless of the continuous setbacks it has to endure. Now, according to the tipster Revegnus, the second-generation 3nm GAA process is showing a ton of promise, with improvements rumored to be seen on the power consumption, performance, and logic area fronts.

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While the yields were not mentioned for the second-generation 3nm GAA process, it is said that it is on par with TSMC’s N3P node. Samsung has to make additional optimizations to its yields, as an earlier report stated that it needs to raise that value to 70 percent before it can regain the confidence of previous clients such as Qualcomm. There were also rumors that Samsung was investing more in its 2nm technology for future orders, but it turns out that these 2nm wafers were actually 3nm ones carrying a different name.

So far, apart from fulfilling cryptocurrency mining hardware orders on the 3nm GAA process, there are no other updates on