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 ...
August 29, 2018 at 7:55 am by Samuel Wan
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 ...
August 29, 2018 at 7:33 am by Samuel Wan
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 ...
March 19, 2018 at 7:54 am by Samuel Wan
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 ...
September 21, 2017 at 8:58 am by Samuel WanWithin 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 ...
July 3, 2017 at 8:33 am by Samuel Wan
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 ...
February 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm by Ron Perillo
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 ...
January 17, 2017 at 8:00 am by Samuel Wan
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 ...
September 19, 2016 at 8:40 am by Samuel WanCurrently, 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 ...
August 18, 2016 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
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 ...
June 21, 2016 at 9:40 am by Alexander Neil
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 ...
January 22, 2016 at 12:57 pm by Samuel Wan
TSMC has just scored a major CPU customer as AMD is allegedly moving their Zen CPUs over to the fab. Originally meant for GlobalFoundries 14nm process, delays at the once AMD ...
September 25, 2015 at 9:26 am by Samuel Wan
GlobalFoundries has been given the all-clear to complete its purchase of IBM’s chips division, in a deal worth $1.5 billion. An off-shoot of AMD, GlobalFoundries was founded ...
July 2, 2015 at 7:00 pm by Ashley Allen
A week ago, Samsung reportedly won a contract to make chips for Apple’s upcoming iPhones using their latest 14nm FinFET technology. However, it seems that the South ...
April 13, 2015 at 11:15 am by Gabriel Roşu
Globalfoundries, Inc. and Infineon Technologies have recently announced that they’re having a joint collaboration for developing and production agreement for 40 nm ...
April 30, 2013 at 6:54 pm by Roshan Ashraf Shaikh
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