For all those users who think that Samsung's semiconductor division is only dedicated to manufacturing components for mobile devices, today we wake up with news that shows, once again, that Samsung's capabilities go far beyond mobile devices.
Samsung's Semiconductor Business Branch has signed an agreement with IBM to manufacture the latest processor that this manufacturer has designed, a processor for data centers baptized as POWER10 and that is based on 7 nn process technology.
The new POWER10 is the successor to POWER9 and is three times more efficient in energy consumption, one of the main problems of data centers. In addition, it has new security capabilities enabled via hardware such as memory encryption and introduces a technology called Memory Inception that improves performance in the cloud that reduces load times when memory is intensively used.
Regarding performance, the new 7 nn architecture of the POWER10 integrates an Artificial Intelligence that allows fast calculations of FP32, INT8 and BFlota16. The presentation of this new processor it will not have sat down well at Intel who a few weeks ago announced a new delay in the manufacture of its new 7 nn processors.
This agreement allows Samsung stand up to the almighty TSMC, the leading Taiwanese company in the manufacture of processors, a company that manufactures the processors of Apple, Intel, Qualcomm and until a few weeks ago, also manufactured the Kirin of Huawei. Samsung will exclusively manufacture this new processor, without sharing part of the manufacturing with TSMC.
