Looks like AMD and Samsung could have good year. 😀

Looks like AMD and Samsung could have good year. 😀

Let's hope so, i want amd to piledrive the competition! :banana:

Oh goodie. Now the year should just go by bit faster so I can buy some new gear... 😀

Let's hope so, i want amd to piledrive the competition! :banana:

Definitely not with Piledriver design... But it looks good for Zen/new GCN iteration. When I saw GloFo fact sheet for 14nm LPP (and normalized + extrapolated those data), I was very much positively surprised as it looks much better than I expected 14nm to play out.

I wonder what's going to happen to TSMC. They were supposedly heavily focusing on 10nm volume production by 2016. Somehow I doubt they are going to hit that. With Qualcomm going to Samsung for the 820 and AMD with the new lineup, they are starting to lose out on major contracts.

I wonder what's going to happen to TSMC. They were supposedly heavily focusing on 10nm volume production by 2016. Somehow I doubt they are going to hit that. With Qualcomm going to Samsung for the 820 and AMD with the new lineup, they are starting to lose out on major contracts.

Nothing serious, even if it happens to be bit worse, it will still sell at lower price. Then they have 20, 28, 40, 65, ... nodes. It is not like they shut factories for older tech once newer is ready. There are still money flowing from older nodes.

neat! fox, i think hes just concerned that they could have trouble with their upcoming fab & get behind. its a valid issue - we need those guys to stay competitive. samsung is rolling in money & could easily eat a bungled fab production...although they do have lucrative contracts, TSMC has had problems ever since, wat, 28mm? still, a bit more competition would be good for prices, which yknow hopefully will get passed along to us 😀