Globalfoundries’ 12-nanometer process can boost chip speeds by 10%

Globalfoundries, one of the world’s biggest contract manufacturers of chips, has unveiled a new 12-nanometer manufacturing process that can yield a 10 percent performance gain over the previous generation.
This kind of process will be the backbone of semiconductor factories that cost $10 billion or more, and so it can be viewed as one of the drivers of the technology economy.
The new process can create chips with 12-nm FinFET features, which are faster and more efficient than the previous