The triple patterning technology is a sort of resolution enhancement technology that repeats the sequence of lithography and etching in the three consecutive times, allowing narrower circuitry of 10nm.

Underlying in what Samsung said is the industry’s first implementation of the 10nm process technology into mass production, the Korean chip maker has successfully win the foundry contracts from NXP, Nvidia, and Qualcomm

Foundry is a contract chip making business that just designs none of its chip, but just produce chips of others’ design.

Thanks to its successful production of the 14nm circuitry technology, the company keeps its foundry chip fabrication lines humming with a rush of orders. For example, the company is founding advanced driving assistance system, or ADAS chip of NXP using the  14nm chip processing technology while fabricating in-vehicle application processor chips of Nvidia Corp .

Samsung also won the foundry contract from Qualcomm to fabricate the U.S fabless chip maker's Snapdragon mobile AP. .

Encouraged by successful silicon implementation of the 14nm chip processing technology for ADAS chips, NXP also plans to outsource fabrication of their next 10nm circuitry chip, becoming the first contract customer to use Samsung’s 10nm chip fabrication lines.