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I think people are underestimating how far away the shrink is.

Let's say TSMC hit volume production arse-end of Q3, as is their current target. The following factors need to be considered:

-bungling (TSlowMC & Global Floundering, respins)
-wafer availability & capacity
-testing (possibly 6 months for new tech, the Fiji board has been in testing since Jan at least)
-market conditions

Which is why I have always said mid-2016 earliest. NV have recently confirmed this, Jensen said H2 in his Pascal hype.
 
Orangey said:
I think people are underestimating how far away the shrink is.

Let's say TSMC hit volume production arse-end of Q3, as is their current target. The following factors need to be considered:

-bungling (TSlowMC & Global Floundering, respins)
-wafer availability & capacity
-testing (possibly 6 months for new tech, the Fiji board has been in testing since Jan at least)
-market conditions

Which is why I have always said mid-2016 earliest. NV have recently confirmed this, Jensen said H2 in his Pascal hype.
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This, I think you'll see high end Arctic Islands (AMD 4xx) on GF/Samsung 14nmFF LPP before you see low-mid end Pascal on TSMC 16nmFF.
 

Pc per talking about hbm, plus gameworks drama and others. hbm discussion starts at 26 mins, brings up a good point about the interposer being so thin that heatsink application might possibly be tricky.
 
ubersonic said:
Didn't somebody on this forum post excerpts from the contract a while back proving that AMDs sale/acquisition would void the license. Kinda lol that random forum guys know more about the wording of AMDs contracts than their chief financial officer lol.
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AMD CFO got it all wrong, here is update on cross license agreement.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...nge-of-control-terminates-agreement-for-both/

If AMD acquired by Samsung or other company or AMD filed for bankruptcy then x86 cross license will be automatically terminated!

AMD is stuck on a hard place and a rock so AMD is either doomed!
 
I should imagine that if it would remain intact then a takeover/merger would have already happened.

AMD have been struggling for a long time now, and Fiji isn't going to save it...
 
pmc25 said:
This, I think you'll see high end Arctic Islands (AMD 4xx) on GF/Samsung 14nmFF LPP before you see low-mid end Pascal on TSMC 16nmFF.
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Might be big issues that takes yields to a whole new low.
new die and new smaller nodes are difficult at best.
I suspect that the next die shrink will cause delays a lot especially with high end cards.
 
Freddie1980 said:
Graphics cards don't turn around companies like AMD. Even if Fiji was a killer product, sold hand over fist and AMD got 50% of discrete video market it won't be enough to save AMD in the long run. The big money is still consumer desktops/laptops and professional servers.
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The original statement by JediFragger was a logical fallacy, it implies AMD are utterly reliant upon the success of Fiji to save their company. As you mention in your post the big money is in desktops/laptops and professional servers. AMD are developing other tech that will cover these areas. AMD are more than just a GPU manufacturer.
 
https://twitter.com/repi/status/601739457960763392
Not sure what GPU this is? Dice Repi posted it on twitter though.

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Freddie1980 said:
Graphics cards don't turn around companies like AMD. Even if Fiji was a killer product, sold hand over fist and AMD got 50% of discrete video market it won't be enough to save AMD in the long run. The big money is still consumer desktops/laptops and professional servers.
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How's that working out for, for example, Dell?

The 'big money' is not in any particular sector, it's in high-margin products.
 
Any one noticed the size of that card in the pic? It's incredibly small. Like 750Ti small, which for a top end card is just amazing. That being if the card pictured is a 390(x) ofc which i have to presume it is. Also it a has a full metal backplate and rubber completely covering the whole back of it very neatly. Got to say, it looks good! But i have not actually seen any proper pictures of the cooling on these cards yet. Something which supposedly will consume 300watts peak of power according to multiple leaks, should need some really good cooling. Something this small i wouldn't hold my breath at!
 
Hopefully they will redo the entire range with the new swanky looking cooler, of course it will help if the cooler is actually any good, as having a nice looking range of coolers is no use to anyone if they don't perform well.

Of course when both companies have made bad cooler in the past the next ones are normally quite good, so things are looking up on that front.
 
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