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GlobalFoundries Dismisses Intel Buyout Rumours
You may recall last week rumours began to surface that Intel had supposedly made an offer to purchase, outright, the chipset firm GlobalFoundries. Given that they are one of the biggest semiconductor manufacturers in the world (possibly only rivalled by TSMC and Samsung) this was clearly quite a bold piece…
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Intel Rumored to be Discussing CPU Deal with GlobalFoundries
It’s one of the worst kept secrets that since 2018, Intel has been having a really hard time producing CPUs to meet the market demand. While they have still been able to make enough processors to keep us average consumers (mostly) happy, their biggest problem has largely lied with 3rd-party…
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AMD Amends Wafer Supply Agreement With GlobalFoundries
AMD Secures Changes to Wafer Supply Agreement In their latest Q4 2018 earnings report, AMD provided a number of updates for the company. One of the ongoing issues is the Wafer Supply Agreement with GlobalFoundries. The two firms have a long history between the two of them that stretches back…
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IBM Chooses Samsung 7nm For POWER and z CPUs
IBM Will Use Custom Samsung 7nm Process Despite all the focus on ARM and x86, there are other alternate CPU architectures. One of the biggest ones is IBM’s POWER and z series processors. While you won’t find them in Apple devices anymore, they are used quite a bit in the…
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AMD Announces Pivot to TSMC 7nm Process
AMD Will Utilize TSMC 7nm Process for CPUs and GPUs Earlier today, GlobalFoundries dropped a bombshell in the silicon world. Unfortautnely, that is no longer the case, with 7nm largely shelved. Two years ago, the foundry announced plans to skip 10nm and go straight to 7nm. AMD also made plans…
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GlobalFoundries Shelves Plans for 7nm Process
GlobalFoundries Will Divert Resources to 14nm and 12nm As of the few remaining silicon foundries, GlobalFoundries plays an important role in the industry. After spinning off from AMD, the chip maker has diversified. Despite lagging behind earlier in the decade, the company has managed to come back. Despite recent progress,…
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Globalfoundries Shares 7nm Process Details
Globalfoundries Promises Great Gains For 7nm In the near future, Globalfoundries will be pushing out production 7nm chips. As a result of increased investment and help from IBM, Globalfoundries is expecting great things from 7nm. Ahead of the 7nm launch, the foundry is ready to share some details about the…
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AMD Announces Zen and Vega on 12nm for 2018
Over much of the past couple of years, AMD has significantly lagged behind Intel’s process node. This all changed with the latest Ryzen series which uses the 14nm process node, the same as Intel’s current generation. With Intel set to move onto 10nm, AMD is making a move as well…
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GlobalFoundries Plans Three 7nm Generations
Within the next year, most of the major silicon foundries will hit 10nm or lower. One of the foundries leading the charge is GlobalFoundires in partnership with Samsung and IBM. Building on their announcements last year, the company is detailing their new 7nm process plans. As announced earlier, the foundry…
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GlobalFoundries Invests $10 Billion to Build Plant in China
Diverging from recent announcements from Foxconn and Intel of building plants in the United States and bringing more manufacturing jobs in North America, California-based chip maker GlobalFoundries has announced a $10 billion project to build an advanced semiconductor factory in the central Chinese city of Chengdu. Just as many US…
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450mm Wafers Likely Won’t Happen Anytime Soon
The Global 450 Consortium, a massive $4.8 billion effort to bring about 450mm wafers has come to an unfortunate end. After 5 years of research and development, two of the founding members have decided to pull out of the program. The consortium brought together Intel, Samsung, GlobalFoundries, TSMC, and IBM in…
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GlobalFoundries Confirms 14nm to 7nm Transition
Earlier in the month, a surprising rumour came out from GlobalFoundries future plans. According to the report, the semiconductor foundry was planning to jump straight from the current 14nm process right to 7nm. This would entail skipping out on 10nm, the next node in line after 14nm. These rumours have now…
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GlobalFoundries Bypasses 10nm for 7nm
Currently, all the major silicon foundries are utilizing a 1x nm process. TSMC has their 16nm while Intel, Samsung, and GlobalFoundries have their 14nm process. The next process in line for development is 10nm, something Intel is pushing hard to reach. However, in a surprise move, GlobalFoundries is reportedly planning…
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AMD Working on 48-Core 7nm Processor Codenamed Starship
When it comes to server processors with tons of cores, Intel’s Xeon Phi line takes the crown, but just as AMD’s Zen could be a rival to Intel’s Core series chips in the consumer market, AMD has now been discovered to be working on a rather impressive server chip codenamed…
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Samsung Ramps Up 14nm LPP Production
With their 14nm LPE (Low Power Early) process behind them, Samsung has moved on and started mass production for their new 14nm LPP (Low Power Performance) process. This is very important for the PC market as AMD is slated to use the 14nm LPP process from Samsung/GlobalFoundries for their upcoming…
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