AMD will manufacture GPUs at Global Foundries

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/05/2014 11:24 AM | source: | 17 comment(s)

In our previous post about 16nm TCSM we've been wondering as to why AMD was not on the 16nm fab list, whereas other players like Nvidia have been named. The answer just came to us though, AMD will manufacture their GPU at Global Foundries. Global Foundries has made great progress claims Devinder Kumar from AMD at an investor meeting.

AMD sold Global Foundries in 2008 to raise cash in difficult times, Kumar stated that they will still fab 'some' products at 20nm and from there on-wards it will move to Finfet-chips. Gobalfoundries is working together with Samsung on 14nm already, Samsung will launch with SoCs based on that fab node next year already.

Finfets have a bigger surface area which helps switching faster for the transistors. Finfet chips are more power efficient, smaller and cheaper to manufacture.

It's unclear of AMD will remain partner of TSMC.

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#4972125 Posted on: 12/05/2014 11:53 AM

well makes sense since GF used to be part of amd

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#4972134 Posted on: 12/05/2014 12:08 PM

So is amd going straight to 14nm

or stopping at 20nm for a while and then full steam ahead with 14. Seems like everyone is ready to just drop 20

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#4972141 Posted on: 12/05/2014 12:26 PM

This is known for extremely long time. AMD is paying to GloFo money every year for manufacturing of APU if they take them or not.
They have made update to deal that they will take more goods (more money for GloFo) but this now includes GPUs.
Did anyone think AMD is dumb or what?

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#4972143 Posted on: 12/05/2014 12:35 PM

GloFo is on the rise kind of atm and doing joint work with samsung towards 14nm is a good thing.

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#4972147 Posted on: 12/05/2014 12:48 PM

GloFo is on the rise kind of atm and doing joint work with samsung towards 14nm is a good thing.

I dont think 14nm FinFet will be ready for high performance (HP) processors on the end of 2015..

20nm > 16nm Finfet.. or maybe they are able to go quickler to 16nm than with TSMC..

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#4972151 Posted on: 12/05/2014 12:57 PM

So is amd going straight to 14nm

or stopping at 20nm for a while and then full steam ahead with 14. Seems like everyone is ready to just drop 20

well supposedly everyone was saying 390x will be 20nm i'm skeptical tho

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#4972215 Posted on: 12/05/2014 02:34 PM

First sentence is it tcsm or tsmc?

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#4972234 Posted on: 12/05/2014 03:15 PM

While Nvidia is stuck at 28nm next year, AMD will be on 20nm? The next year after that when Nvidia starts production on 16nmFinFET, AMD with the help of Samsung will start production on the 14nm process?

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#4972285 Posted on: 12/05/2014 04:53 PM

I dont think 14nm FinFet will be ready for high performance (HP) processors on the end of 2015..

20nm > 16nm Finfet.. or maybe they are able to go quickler to 16nm than with TSMC..

To me it seemed when reading bit more that only one going to 16nm FinFet is tsmc and rest straight to 14nm FinFet, tho since the naming conventions are weird and I ain't even close to being clear on those I ain't sure. 16nm is like 28nm and 20nm a Stopgap half-node, but like I know anything

First chips with 14nm FinFet should ship starting 2015 so I guess we will see high performing chips early 2016 maybe. But surely some 20nm parts will come out to fill the void.

well supposedly everyone was saying 390x will be 20nm i'm skeptical tho

We will see.

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#4972397 Posted on: 12/05/2014 08:26 PM

Is this good or bad? i thought AMD was royally screwed hard by glofo.

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#4972407 Posted on: 12/05/2014 08:46 PM

Is this good or bad? i thought AMD was royally screwed hard by glofo.

GF has missed their deadlines many times and seems to perpetually be in last place so unless samsung is bailing them out dont put too much faith in em.

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#4972559 Posted on: 12/06/2014 03:20 AM

Nvidia stuck at 28nm next year? Where did you read that "nonsense"?

Nvidia is going to use TSMC's 16nm FinFET and therefore will probably skip 20nm.
TSMC talked to the Dutch ASML for manufacturing equipment. It's expected that the first chips arrive somewhere mid 2015.

ps: yes, I did make an account for this post

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#4972577 Posted on: 12/06/2014 05:15 AM

Welcome and enjoy your stay. May it be free of bad internet habits.

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#4972726 Posted on: 12/06/2014 05:53 PM

Ah who knows what's what anymore. so much is being said . But till i see one high performance 14 nm finfet on a AMD or Nvidia then it should all be taken with a grain of salt. Global F. Does not have a very good track record!

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#4972857 Posted on: 12/06/2014 11:12 PM

so Q2-Q3 2016 for a 16nm baby card then.

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