Samsung announced Wednesday it had begun mass production of 3-nanometer processors, afaster and more efficient class of chips.
The processor was previously expected to arrive in 2021 but was delayed until this year.
Transitioning to a next-generation manufacturing technology is extraordinarily complicated.
Chips are made of billions of electronic components called transistors, each vastly smaller than a speck of dust.
The new chip debuts amid extreme pressure in the processor business.
It also comes amid intense competition in the chip industry.
By comparison, Samsung came in at a distant second at 16.3% market share.
In 2025, Samsung plans to move to a second, more advanced gate-all-around technology it calls 2GAP.
That manufacturing method will be the first of Samsung’s 2nm generation.
