Samsung Confirms 1.4nm Chip Development Remains on Track, Slated for 2029

Samsung just confirmed that its 1.4nm chip development is moving along as planned, and it puts the South Korean giant in direct competition with TSMC. The update came in Samsung's official Q1 2026 earnings announcement, where the company also reported record-breaking revenue and profit numbers, mainly driven by high-bandwidth memory (HBM) demand from the AI industry.

Samsung Sticks to Its 1.4nm Roadmap

In its earnings press release, Samsung said, "Development of the 1.4nm node remains on track, with the business also pursuing the expansion of large-scale 2nm customers". Is one of the "large-scale 2nm customers", Qualcomm? We don't know yet, but mass production of the 1.4nm process is slated for 2029, as per the company's recent foundry roadmap shared during the 4Q25 earnings call. 

Note that this is a revised target as Samsung originally wanted to mass-produce 1.4nm chips by 2027, but in 2025, the company pushed the timeline back by two years to focus on 2nm yield and stabilise existing nodes.

It means that Samsung will be roughly a year behind TSMC, which is targeting 2028 for its own 1.4nm A14 node. By the time Samsung begins its 1.4nm production, TSMC is expected to have the A14P process in 2029.

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Apart from that, Samsung is targeting full utilisation of advanced-node production lines in Q2 2026. The second half of 2026 is lined up for the second-generation 2nm process node for mobile processors. We recently reported that Qualcomm may return to Samsung Foundry for production of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip on its second-gen 2nm node.

On top of that, the Exynos 2700 also showed up on Geekbench, giving an impression that Samsung is ramping up its 2nm process tech for its in-house silicon. Mass production is slated for late 2026 on the second-gen 2nm SF2P node, which may power the Galaxy S27 lineup in most regions around the world.

Not to mention, the Exynos 2800 is reportedly being prepped on Samsung's third-gen SF2P+ process for the Galaxy S28 series in 2028. Finally, Samsung posted a record KRW 57.2 trillion (South Korean won) in operating profit, thanks to HBM4 and SOCAMM2 shipments for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform this quarter.