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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Announces its 7 nm FinFET Technology

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced plans to deliver a new leading-edge 7nm FinFET semiconductor technology that will offer the ultimate in performance for the next era of computing applications. This technology provides more processing power for data centers, networking, premium mobile processors, and deep learning applications.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES' new 7nm FinFET technology is expected to deliver more than twice the logic density and a 30 percent performance boost compared to today's 16/14nm foundry FinFET offerings. The platform is based on an industry-standard FinFET transistor architecture and optical lithography, with EUV compatibility at key levels. This approach will accelerate the production ramp through significant re-use of tools and processes from the company's 14nm FinFET technology, which is currently in volume production at its Fab 8 campus in Saratoga County, N.Y. GLOBALFOUNDRIES plans to make an additional mutli-billion dollar investment in Fab 8 to enable development and production for 7nm FinFET.

"The industry is converging on 7nm FinFET as the next long-lived node, which represents a unique opportunity for GLOBALFOUNDRIES to compete at the leading edge," said GLOBALFOUNDRIES CEO Sanjay Jha. "We are well positioned to deliver a differentiated 7nm FinFET technology by tapping our years of experience manufacturing high-performance chips, the talent and know-how of our former IBM Microelectronics colleagues and the world-class R&D pipeline from our research alliance. No other foundry can match this legacy of manufacturing high-performance chips."

"GLOBALFOUNDRIES made a bold decision to jump directly from 14nm to 7nm--a decision that is now supported by several leading semiconductor companies as they see only marginal performance and power benefits for the high cost of the 10nm process node," said Jim McGregor, founder and principal analyst at TIRIAS Research. "Much like the 28nm and 16/14nm process nodes, 7nm appears to be the next major process node that will be widely leveraged by the entire semiconductor industry for at least the next decade."

"Leading-edge technologies like GLOBALFOUNDRIES 7nm FinFET are an important part of how we deliver our long-term roadmap of computing and graphics products that are capable of powering the next generation of computing experiences," said Dr. Lisa Su, president and CEO, AMD. "We look forward to continuing our close collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES as they extend the solid execution and technology foundation they are building at 14nm to deploy high-performance, low-power 7nm technology in the coming years."

"IBM is committed to pushing the limits of semiconductor technology as part of its aggressive long term research agenda," said Arvind Krishna, senior vice president and director of IBM Research. "IBM Research continues to collaborate with GLOBALFOUNDRIES in developing new ideas, new skills and new technologies that will help accelerate our joint research in 7nm technology and beyond."

GLOBALFOUNDRIES will deliver a comprehensive and competitive IP library, co-optimized with process development. To enable customers to accelerate adoption of 7nm FinFET technology, GLOBALFOUNDRIES has expanded its strategic partnership with INVECAS beyond 14LPP and FDX processes to now include foundry IP development for 7nm process technologies. This will provide customers with a strong foundation to build early designs that meet their performance, power and area requirements.

"INVECAS specializes in providing unrivaled IP solutions, ASIC and design services to GLOBALFOUNDRIES' customers that span the wide-range of GLOBALFOUNDRIES' leading edge FinFET and FDX processes," said Dasaradha Gude, CEO, INVECAS. "Our strategic partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES combined with our tailor-made foundry IP model allows us to develop a 7nm FinFET process foundation IP that meets the challenging performance requirements of 7nm customers' leading-edge applications."

Building on the success of its 14LPP technology platform, GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 7nm FinFET technology is positioned to enable next-generation computing applications that demand ultra-high performance, from high-end mobile SoCs to processors for cloud servers and networking infrastructure. The company's high-performance offerings are complemented by its 22FDXTM and 12FDXTM technologies, which have been developed to meet the ultra-low-power requirements of the next generation of intelligent connected devices, from mobile computing and 5G connectivity to artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 7nm FinFET technology will be supported by a full platform of foundation and complex intellectual property (IP), including an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) offering. Test chips with IP from lead customers have already started running in Fab 8. The technology is expected to be ready for customer product design starts in the second half of 2017, with ramp to risk production in early 2018.

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Can that PR be a bit longer please?
 
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Can that PR be a bit longer please?

LoL Can the BS bin get any bigger? LoL We barely have 14nm lithography working, AFAIK only Intel is truly at 14nm? Maybe the fabs should concentrate on getting 14nm figured out completely before posting about 7nm. Wasn't Intel just saying they were going to be stuck at 14nm for the next few years because of issues going forward?
 
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The technology is expected to be ready for customer product design starts in the second half of 2017, with ramp to risk production in early 2018.
18 months? I bet it will be more like 36 months if 14/16nm are any indicator.
 

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LoL Can the BS bin get any bigger? LoL We barely have 14nm lithography working, AFAIK only Intel is truly at 14nm? Maybe the fabs should concentrate on getting 14nm figured out completely before posting about 7nm. Wasn't Intel just saying they were going to be stuck at 14nm for the next few years because of issues going forward?

Different manufacturing technologies though. Intel has said they're not moving to EUV (for now) and it's possible that GloFo will and as such can get ahead.

TSMC is moving to 10nm by the end of this year and claim to offer 7nm by next year - http://www.tsmc.com.tw/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/future_rd.htm

FinFET is quite different to Intel's Tri-gate transistors and this could be why these guys are catching up with Intel. However, it's not just about the lithography, a lot of other things matter as well and as we know, TSMC failed miserably with 20nm and things can always go wrong...
 
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To be honest, this might as well be true since we all know that Intel got extremely lazy after he received ZERO competition from AMD on the past years... So I wouldn't be surprised if somebody else is leading the technology pack right now...
 
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I have to quote someone funny from the tech report who put it aptly:

exaggerated it may be, but it made me chuckle :laugh:
 
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