Qualcomm Samples Its First 10nm FinFET Server Processors To Customers

Much to Intel’s chagrin, Qualcomm has dominated the mobile processor market for quite some time, but that’s not enough to satisfy the intense hunger of the company. Today, it proves that, as it’s just announced that it’s begun shipping the first samples of its upcoming server processor series, Centriq 2400.

Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400 is notable for a handful of reasons. One of the biggest is the simple fact that the company is gunning for the likes of Intel. Its Snapdragon server chips might not be as well-rounded as Intel’s Xeons (or Core desktop models, for that matter), but in many cases, they don’t need to be. For some workloads, a 48 core ARM-based chip could prove sufficient enough.

The other major feature of the Centriq 2400 series is that it’s built on an industry-leading process: 10nm FinFET. It’s not clear who’s going to be building this chip for Qualcomm, but it has been revealed in the past that Samsung will be the one in charge of its 10nm Snapdragon chips (eg: 835) for mobiles, so it could be that the same partner will be used for Centriq chips.

While Qualcomm has begun sampling its Centriq 2400, the processors are not going to become available for consumer consumption until the second-half of 2017. Given that timing, we’re bound to see the 10nm mobile version of the chip before then.