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GLOFO announces next-gen AMD product 14nm FinFET success

by Mark Tyson on 6 November 2015, 11:06

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), GLOBALFOUNDRIES

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES has announced that it has successfully demonstrated it can mass produce next-gen AMD products using its advanced 14nm FinFET process technology. Now that this milestone has been passed it is planned that GLOBALFOUNDRIES will be used for fabrication of multiple AMD products coming in 2016 and beyond.

Multiple AMD products are said to have been taped out using the 14nm Low Power Plus (14LPP) process technology at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. The firm says that production samples are now being made ahead of expected mass production next year. This 14LPP platform provides three-dimensional, fully-depleted FinFET transistors and is expected to result in higher-performance, more power-efficient compute and graphics technologies across a broad set of applications.

Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMD thanked GLOBALFOUNDRIES for working "tirelessly" to reach this milestone, and reaffirmed that this process technology would be put to use across AMD's CPU, APU, and GPU products.

The new AMD products based upon 14LPP will provide "a performance boost over 28nm technology, while maintaining a superior power footprint and providing a true cost advantage due to significant area scaling," said GLOBALFOUNDRIES SVP of product management, Mike Cadigan.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES says that its performance-enhanced 14LPP technology is ramping with production-ready yields and excellent model-to-hardware correlation. It expects the early ramp to complete in Q4 this year before full-scale production in the new year.



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about time. AMD must feel they have a chance now as long as everything goes right.
I thing AMD's problem is not only Lithography I thing amd have important problems on harwere-to-software layer compatibility
RobotDoktoru
I thing AMD's problem is not only Lithography I thing amd have important problems on harwere-to-software layer compatibility

Personally, I think their main issue is image.

They have allowed themselves to fall behind the competition by too much for too long, combine that with recent articles regarding who is making money and who is losing it, and AMD starts to look like a failure in many peoples eyes.

They have one huge mountain to climb o get back where they were.
RobotDoktoru
I thing AMD's problem is not only Lithography I thing amd have important problems on harwere-to-software layer compatibility

Yes its called windows :p
I hope that AMD close the gap with Intell.
For desktop-pc intell is not doing much to increase compute power. For a gamer I still use a 2500k on 4,2 ghz. and the only upgrades in the last 3.5 years was a ssd and a gtx970.