GlobalFoundries will Acquire IBM Chip Business
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Ven0m
I haven't expected that. IBM is selling more and more.
fantaskarsef
Yeah... didn't see that coming. What is left of IBM then, if they sell their business including engineers and intellectual property? Their reserves of IBM t-shirts and stock of printer paper?
umeng2002
I guess this means AMD can be competitive with x86 again... in 2016
Lane
double post
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tugCREW
Hope this help nVidia to have 20nm for their Maxwell fabrication with profitable yields
shymi
southamptonfc
Lane
PhazeDelta1
The funny thing is, IBM is paying Global Foundries to take it.
Fox2232
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1262887
But google will give you few thousands more.
If you consider only real metric for node comparison which is "power consumption per MHz per transistor" then you realize intel does not have real 22nm and their processors being faster than AMD is not some node magic, they have smarter uArch therefore higher IPC.
To the topic: IBM has 4 times more employees than intel, it is very heavy ship.
And it takes some time and effort to change direction. And IBM did it several times in past. And that is what is going on again now.
As far as GloFo is concerned:
- TSMC was quite more active in last 2 years on patent side
- but GloFo has made progress where it matters for future
http://stks.freshpatents.com/Global-Foundries-nm1.php?archive=2014
And everyone should remember that node does not matter that much, what matters is getting things together well.
- proper power gating
- way interposer is managed to combine differently manufactured silicons
- level of integration of system components
People hear a lot of noise, it is better to read and remember:
“Any time we talk about new nodes, we should wash our mouths out with soap,” said Scott Thompson, chief technologist of startup SuVolta and a former Intel fellow. Engineers ignore traditional metrics, saying “Intel’s 22-nm node is really 26 nm, so if Intel does new math, so will we,” he said.
Source: fantaskarsef