Monday, June 18th 2012
AMD Adopts 28 nm Bulk Manufacturing in 2013
According to AMD senior VP and CTO Mark Papermaster, the company will adopt the 28 nanometer bulk CMOS silicon fabrication process for its chips in 2013. The bulk process is used to manufacture high-volume and less-complex products, such as motherboard chipset, entry-level APUs, etc. The company already takes advantage of TSMC 28 nm High-Performance process for highly-complex chip designs, such as its Southern Islands GPU family, and will continue using it for its next-generation "Sea Islands" GPUs. In related news, DigiTimes learned through sources that AMD's Sea Islands GPUs have entered tape-out stage, and are on course for a late-2012 volume manufacturing, and early-2013 launch schedule.
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DigiTimes
35 Comments on AMD Adopts 28 nm Bulk Manufacturing in 2013
Why does it bother you?
Process helps but hsa is said to bring much more performance improvements than a process shrink. But let's hope its big enough to compete with Intel process shrink+new architecture. AMD believes it is so lets just hope they dwliver
sorry trying to understand why it is like this.
Now shut the F@%* Up and Take my money.:Dits in part due to a set percentage decrease required verses technically possible, and is also based upon what a 300mm wafer or the manufacturers own size diveded up into a certain ammount of chips, and the optical precision possible in the lenses etc of the process(Lythography), a few things go towards a setting of each size, and they are normally at or beyond whats easily possible allready.
they are behind :shadedshu not out,and so are intel;) Gpu yawn ,,ive been down this road , suffice to say main rigs a phenom 960T, and yes intels piss on mine but and what, it folds 24/7 and games well enough:D
its progress though and thats good..
These people make bad friends, they are the type of people that want to see you do bad too.
SRAM Cell Size:
GloFo => ~0.120 um²
TSMC => ~0.127 um²
Intel => ~0.092-0.108 um²
AMD-IBM Fishkill => ~0.1 um²
AMD's foundries aren't that far behind... and since Rambus is working with GlobalFoundries to shrink and speed up SRAM Cells we can expect Steamroller to have faster and bigger L1, L2, L3 caches.
Also forgot to mention that 32-nm yields are directly linked to 28-nm yields.
2011 -> 2012 for GlobalFoundries provided a 2x increase in 32-nm PD-SOI yields
2012 -> 2013 yield increase will be whatever is added from that plus the sightly decreased size.
~10% smaller node(vs 32-nm)
~20% smaller SRAM cells(vs 32-nm)
~2x increase from initial 32-nm yields(2011 - Bulldozer to 2013 - Steamroller)
28-nm Bulk CMOS and 28-nm FD-SOI CMOS is also cheaper and tends to have a higher volume/yield rate than 32-nm PD-SOI.
Would be nice if the thread title was specified for what use AMD will adopt 28nm.
'Cause there seems to be a lot of people who just read the title and rushed to comment.