KNCMiner recently received widespread coverage of their announcement that they will be launching their “Solar” line of 16 nm chips in early 2015.

Quietly however, Hong Kong based Black Arrow LTD has been planning to up one-up KNCMiner with an even smaller process. By December of this year, if all goes according to Black Arrow’s plans, 14 nm chips will be cruising down the production pipeline.

According to Black Arrow’s schedule, the tape-out date is set to December 2014 with wafers scheduled to be completed in April 2015. Chips will be ready to be shipped in May 2015.