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Intel is rumored to be buying capacity at Globalfoundries
If you've seen last weeks yearly results for Intel, you know it, they cannot fab processors and chips in general fast enough. Mainly due to the fact there are still massive shortages on the 14nm node of TSMC and Samsung.
The Homebase of AMD of Global Foundries which they sold a few years ago, and it looks like Intel now is doing a swan dance with the company in order to secure orders.
Intel has delivery issues with 14nm products, they want to fab more but there just isn't any capacity left. Intel employees have been spotted in visiting Korea, which fueled rumors that it was outsourcing capacities to Samsung . The Xe HP graphics card planned for 2022 could be manufactured at TMSC.
Intel might now also be interested in placing orders with global foundries to relieve its own fabs, Globalfoundries has its focus on 4/16 nm. According to the rumor, Celerons, Pentiums and maybe Core i3 should be produced at Globalfoundries.
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#5754969 Posted on: 01/28/2020 12:47 PM
I haven't heard anything about high defect rates (poor yield) on TSMC 7nm. Shouldn't it be okay? Customers seem to be happy and it's running at 100% capacity, which limits how much AMD (and others) can sell their products. If the wafer cost is supposedly high (which I haven't heard anything about either), it's probably due to the demand. It certainly hasn't affected AMD's ability to beat Intel in price/performance.
I'll just leave this one here.
I haven't heard anything about high defect rates (poor yield) on TSMC 7nm. Shouldn't it be okay? Customers seem to be happy and it's running at 100% capacity, which limits how much AMD (and others) can sell their products. If the wafer cost is supposedly high (which I haven't heard anything about either), it's probably due to the demand. It certainly hasn't affected AMD's ability to beat Intel in price/performance.
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#5754979 Posted on: 01/28/2020 01:10 PM
The question there is the cut and profit per SKU. I personally believe Intel can easily pay a bit more for fab per SKU and still make a profit, since their CPUs have a cheaper node than AMD's, and up until recently they charged a lot more for essentially the same product they're selling now, so they already made a lot of profit.
And buying additional fab capacity is more than logical if you can't keep up with demand... you already know you'll get your money back if you can feed the market.
I haven't heard anything about high defect rates (poor yield) on TSMC 7nm. Shouldn't it be okay? Customers seem to be happy and it's running at 100% capacity, which limits how much AMD (and others) can sell their products. If the wafer cost is supposedly high (which I haven't heard anything about either), it's probably due to the demand. It certainly hasn't affected AMD's ability to beat Intel in price/performance.
The question there is the cut and profit per SKU. I personally believe Intel can easily pay a bit more for fab per SKU and still make a profit, since their CPUs have a cheaper node than AMD's, and up until recently they charged a lot more for essentially the same product they're selling now, so they already made a lot of profit.
And buying additional fab capacity is more than logical if you can't keep up with demand... you already know you'll get your money back if you can feed the market.
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#5754986 Posted on: 01/28/2020 01:23 PM
I'll just leave this one here.
This virgin pleb is loving his 3950x
You'd think with the Billions of $ Profits Intel makes every year, they would have more fabs under their belt.
I read that intel was transitioning some fabs to new density processes, hence why reduction in their total fab capacity.
I'll just leave this one here.
This virgin pleb is loving his 3950x
You'd think with the Billions of $ Profits Intel makes every year, they would have more fabs under their belt.
I read that intel was transitioning some fabs to new density processes, hence why reduction in their total fab capacity.
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#5754992 Posted on: 01/28/2020 01:41 PM
This would be a bit ironic.
This would be a bit ironic.
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You'd think with the Billions of $ Profits Intel makes every year, they would have more fabs under their belt.