Samsung Foundry updates process roadmap to move 1.4nm node to 2029 — high-NA EUV will enable 1nm-class and smaller nodes in 2030 and beyond
- ID
- 13443
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 12 Aug 2026, 7:00 PM
- Fetched
- 12 Aug 2026, 7:28 PM
- Provider
- Tom's Hardware
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-foundry-updates-process-roadmap-to-move-1-4nm-node-to-2029-high-na-euv-will-enable-1nm-class-and-smaller-nodes-in-2030-and-beyond
- Source URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all
Summary
- Score
- 2.5
- Created
- 12 Aug 2026, 7:29 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- ai-ml-learnerssaas-founders
What happened
Samsung Foundry has updated its semiconductor process roadmap, pushing its 1.4nm node to 2029 and planning to use high-NA EUV lithography for 1nm-class and smaller nodes from 2030 onward. The article text itself is almost entirely Tom's Hardware site navigation and subscription boilerplate, with the substantive detail confined to the headline.
Why it matters
For software builders, this is a distant hardware supply-chain signal with no near-term action item. The only useful takeaway is that advanced node capacity (which affects future AI chip cost and availability) is slipping to late 2029–2030, meaning any assumption about dramatically cheaper inference hardware before then should be tempered. No decision needs to be made this week.
Discussion angle
Whether AI inference cost projections for 2027–2029 should assume continued Moore's-law-style cost drops, or whether foundry roadmap slips suggest plateauing hardware cost per transistor — and what that means for SaaS pricing models that depend on falling inference costs.