The mature FinFET nodes are rapidly becoming an interesting option for companies focused on low power applications like wearables, IoT, and medical. With an attractive combination of performance, density, and yield, these nodes can deliver some very compelling trade-offs, in particular cutting operating voltages to deliver substantial power savings whilst still delivering the requisite performance metrics. With 16nm now having been in production for over ten years, not only have the foundries ironed out manufacturing issues, but the tooling is now also largely depreciated meaning that a technology that was once the heralded solution for the demands of the HPC and mobile sectors has now become cost competitive for developers of power sensitive devices. Full article on Electronic Specifier