First Hisi 16nm processor

Maybe you don't know Hisi. But you should know the Kirin processors. They are made by Hisi. Recently, TSMC announced that it cooperated with Hisi, succeeded in developing one network processor based on FinFET technology and ARM framework. This processor adopts the latest 16nm process technology from TSMC.

This 16nm FinFET technology can enhanced the processing speed and reduce power consumption dramatically, and reduce the current drain. Compared with old 28HPM technology, this 16FinFET can increase the gate density by 200%. In the same power consumption, its processing speed is 40% faster. If in same processing speed, its power consumption is reduced by 60%.

CEO of Hisi said, this chipset adopts ARM V8 framework, and integrates 32 cores A57. The frequency can be 2.6GHz.

The performance of this new chipset is about 3 times of the old one, and support virtualization, SDN and NFV. It can be widely adopted in base station, router, core network in future.