ARM & TSMC announce 64bit ARM-based processors on 10FinFET

TSMC will apply its experience from prior generations of 20SoC and 16FinFET in the ARM ecosystem, to offer performance and power improvements at 10FinFET. The ARM ecosystem can also take advantage of TSMC's open innovation platform, which includes a set of ecosystem interfaces and collaborative components initiated and supported by TSMC.

The joint innovations from previous TSMC and ARM collaborations have enabled customers to accelerate product development cycles and use professional processes and IP. Recent benefits have included early access to ARM Artisan Physical IP and tape-outs of ARM Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 processors on 16FinFET.

“ARM and TSMC are industry leaders in our respective fields and collectively ensure the availability of leading-edge solutions for ARM-based SoCs through our deep and long-term collaboration,” said Pete Hutton, Executive Vice President and President, Product Groups, ARM. “Our mutual commitment to providing industry leading solutions drives us to work together early in the development cycle to optimise both the processor and the process node. This joint optimisation enables ARM silicon partners to design, tape-out and bring their products to market faster.”

“TSMC has continuously been the lead foundry to introduce advanced process technology for ARM-based SoCs,” said Dr. Cliff Hou, Vice President of R&D, TSMC. “Together with ARM, we proved out in silicon the high performance and low power of the big.LITTLE architecture as implemented in 16FinFET. Given the successful adoption of our previous collaborative efforts, it makes sense that we continue this fruitful partnership with ARM in future 64-bit cores and 10FinFET.”