Samsung has managed to do quite well at getting its own 14nm technology ready and has been using its Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge smartphones to demonstrate its fabrication technology. But it seems that going on behind the scenes was a partnership with GlobalFoundries to share the tech.

Now GloFlo is ready with its version of 14nm technology.

According to Patexia  Mubadala Development which is the Abu Dhabi-based investment and development company that owns GlobalFoundries has released a statement about its own 14nm production.

Mubadala said:

"GlobalFoundries announced a strategic collaboration with Samsung to deliver capacity at 14nm, one of the industry's most advanced nodes, as Fab 8 in Malta, New York began ramping production for customers".

Samsung developed both the 14LPE (low-power early) and 14LPP (low-power plus) technologies, licensing them to GlobalFoundries.

Bit of a surprise

Both of the manufacturing processes use FinFET transistors, but they still fall back on back-end-of-line (BEOL) interconnects which are fabricated on the 20nm node.

While both technologies don't cut chip's costs in comparison to the previous node, but they do provide a nice 20 per cent boost in performance at the same power usage, and cut power consumption by up to 35 per cent without harming performance.

Still the news is a bit of a surprise and delivered on a poor news day when everyone other than Fudzilla is on holiday, eating chocolate, or in church remembering what happened when a God wen up against the established church.