Samsung Foundry wins order to produce Arkiana CPU test chip
Samsung Foundry has won an order to manufacture U.S. fabless company Arkiana’s test CPU, ‘Alpine,’ using a 4-nanometer FinFET process. Arkiana is a RISC-V-based fabless company established in 2021.
Samsung Foundry has won an order to produce a test chip for U.S. fabless company Arkiana. 10According to industry sources, Samsung Foundry will manufacture the test CPU ‘Alpine’ designed by Arkiana. The manufacturing process is 4-nanometer FinFET.
Arkiana is a U.S. fabless company established in 2021. Core engineers who designed Marvell’s server processor ‘ThunderX2’ participated in its founding. The company focuses its business on designing chips for servers.
Arkiana uses RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture. The company aims to develop chips for data centers and AI servers. Alpine is a test chip intended to validate these objectives.
Samsung Foundry produces Alpine using a 4nanometer process. The contract is reported to have been concluded mainly for the production of test chips. Public reports did not include the order size or specific schedule.
The reports did not disclose detailed contract terms or the amount. Whether any additional disclosure will be made has not been confirmed. The information currently available publicly consists of the matters mentioned above.
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