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sdack |
I wonder who its other customers will be.
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ssidbroadcast |
Here's a thought; How will this effect the supply of AMD processors and GPUs when The Foundry is taking orders from other customers (could be anyone, Samsung, Hitachi, Apple, even nVidia)?
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Chillectric |
Unsurprisingly, AMD intends to rely on The Foundry Company's future bulk silicon production capabilities to build GPUs and chipsets. The second slide suggests that move will happen at the 32nm node in 2010, but AMD will apparently stick with 55nm and 40nm processes from TSMC and UMC until then.
From the slides I see The Foundry Company will start bulk silicon in Q2'09 for the 45 nm node, and Q4'09 for the 32 nm node. In Q1'10 they will start high-k metal gates and SOI for the 32 nm node. |
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Suspenders |
Why are CPU's and GPU's built using these different processes? Could they not just build both using one?
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