We all know TSMC's energy-miser 28-nanometer manufacturing process has a good number of headroom, however the company just ratcheted expectations up by a number of notches. Lab workers at Taiwan's semiconductor giant have successfully run a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor at 3.1GHz under normal conditions. That's a 55 percent higher clock speed than the 2GHz maximum that TSMC normally offers, folks, and about twice as fast as a 40nm chip under the similar workload. Don't expect that sort of clock speed out of your next smartphone or tablet, though: expect processors of this caliber in finding "high-performance uses," which takes us that much in the direction of NVIDIA's Project Denver in addition to other ARM-based desktops, notebooks and servers that are supposed to give x86 chips a run for his or her money.
From WhatNewsToday.net
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