MWC: Mobile needs "prime time" yields at 14nm, says Cadence CEO Lip-Bu Tan

Cadence CEO Lip-Bu Tan says yields on the latest generation of semiconductor process technology 14nm are improving and he expects first 10nm silicon in production next year.

By Richard Wilson - Electronics Weekly, Feb. 24, 2016 – 

Tan was speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, where he was also highlighting the design tool and silicon IP firm's increasingly close links with Arm, the mobile phone processor giant.

Tan said the company is already working on tools for 5nm with the Imec semiconductor research centre in Belgium.

According to Tan, it is the mobile phone chips which are driving the design tool firms and foundries to next generation processes technologies such as 14nm.

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