AMD and Globalfoundries to Make 28nm Parts
In a recent interview, Globalfoundries vice president of manufacturing systems and technology Tom Sonderman said that the company plans to make GPUs using 28nm processes in the near future.
In a recent interview, Globalfoundries vice president of manufacturing systems and technology Tom Sonderman said that the company plans to make GPUs using 28nm processes in the near future.
Recently X-bit Labs published an interview with AMD's Tom Sonderman, discussing AMD's spin-off company (or rather the former manufacturing division), Globalfoundries, and its future corporate plans. The four-page interview offers a wealth of knowledge, discussing topics such as the Globalfoundries name, the origins of the company, and the advantages the company will offer in comparison to other existing foundries. However, what stood out in the interview was Sonderman's comment towards the end, when X-Bit Labs asked about AMD outsourcing its chipset and graphics chip production to Globalfoundries.
"We intend on competing for AMD’s graphics business in the 32nm/28nm technology node," he said. However, as X-Bit pointed out, AMD is obliged to require both microprocessors and GPUs from Globalfoundries, as AMD is one of the owners; using the term "competing" may have been inaccurate. Still, Sonderman's answer hints to the possibility that the company may be ready for 28nm processing soon.
Additionally, Sonderman said that the company is already sniffing around for additional clients outside AMD. "We are actively engaging with multiple tier 1 fabless and fablite semiconductor companies who require leading-edge capacity," he added. "We’re not ready to announce any new relationships yet."
Could his comment mean that companies such as Nvidia, Nintendo, and Microsoft are potential clients? "PC platform technologies (CPUs, GPUs), wireless, game consoles, and telecom are a few examples of markets we’re targeting," he confirmed.
Sonderman also indicated that 32nm bulk silicon is already running in Dresden, and will be ready to accept customer designs later this year; it will even offer an aggressive production ramp in 2010. However, he did not offer additional details regarding to 28nm processing, and when the company plans to implement the technology. Stay tuned as Globalfoundries reveals more in the near future.
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so amd might have done something before intel?
wow thats actually a first for amd.
@Helloworld_98
Didn't AMD develop the 64-bit extension to x86 and now license it back to Intel?
so amd might have done something before intel?wow thats actually a first for amd.
. High-speed interconnects (aka Hyper-transport or HT link)
. Native quad-cores
. Integrated memory controllers with ultra-low latency
. Lower power/high performance chipsets, capable of good 3D and HD video.
. Some of if not the, fastest discrete graphics hardware currently available.
I also recall AMD being first in line with the gaming benchmarks, up until the advent of Core2, and for super computer 70% of the market was using AMD.
My son, ignorance is a bliss....
Try researching before opening your big mouth. Trying to diss AMD, they are one of the, possibly only, company who actually do things themselves while others try to use dodgy tactics like price fixing, paying companies to use their parts and now bullying with threatening behaviour.
To me that has got to say something. Just wait till the next few years and everything is spilled on the table... the big bad intel shall reveal all the false rubbish that they get people like you to buy.
Bye. And enjoy your intel. For me when i see lies all around i change my views and so i'm open to change. I will never buy/support companies that use shameful otherwise questionable tactics. And now to want AMD dead - well, that tells me a lot!
By the way, i ain't no fanboy as such, as i readily switch to honest and ethical even organic businesses or you might call it turn-cote. But i like not being the dog of someone (got that from full metal alchemist ha. ha. ha).
Laters mr INTEL.
Intel have had 45nm up and running for years now (and way before AMD) so to think that Intel hasn't already nailed 32nm would be a huge mistake. It is in their roadmap to move to 32nm on the 1366 socket - possibly the next generation of Core i7 will be on that process to bring more performance / power saving gains. I always said that AMD should have skipped 45nm and gone straight to 32nm if they wanted to take the performance crown back from Intel. Problem is that we are getting close to the limit of the SOI process and it gets very difficult / expensive to perfect manufacturing at this low level - ie huge R&D budgets which is why Intel tends to stay ahead.