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GLOFO announces next-gen AMD product 14nm FinFET success

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES has announced that it has successfully demonstrated it can mass produce next-gen AMD products using its advanced 14nm FinFET process technology. Now that this milestone has been passed it is planned that GLOBALFOUNDRIES will be used for fabrication of multiple AMD products coming in 2016 and beyond.

Multiple AMD products are said to have been taped out using the 14nm Low Power Plus (14LPP) process technology at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. The firm says that production samples are now being made ahead of expected mass production next year. This 14LPP platform provides three-dimensional, fully-depleted FinFET transistors and is expected to result in higher-performance, more power-efficient compute and graphics technologies across a broad set of applications.
Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMD thanked GLOBALFOUNDRIES for working "tirelessly" to reach this milestone, and reaffirmed that this process technology would be put to use across AMD's CPU, APU, and GPU products.

The new AMD products based upon 14LPP will provide "a performance boost over 28nm technology, while maintaining a superior power footprint and providing a true cost advantage due to significant area scaling," said GLOBALFOUNDRIES SVP of product management, Mike Cadigan.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES says that its performance-enhanced 14LPP technology is ramping with production-ready yields and excellent model-to-hardware correlation. It expects the early ramp to complete in Q4 this year before full-scale production in the new year.
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Some good news I guess. Really looking forward to 2016 new Gen GPUs DirectX 12 will be in full swing, exciting times.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
And pc gaming will still be held back by consoles shanks lol
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So true :( in saying that all my time atm is going into a pc exclusive Squad what an excellent game this is shaping up to be..

Quite demanding also so my next upgrade will be do sweet coming from single 290. Depending on price of these 14nm I could grab a Furyx and still have a decent upgrade.. :D
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
And pc gaming will still be held back by consoles shanks lol
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You say that, but we're still getting plenty of games where even a 980Ti cant max out every game at 1080p. If games were pushing graphics even harder on PC, bumping up resolutions wouldn't even be realistic.

If you can play with slightly-better-than-console graphics but at a higher resolution and also at 60fps, I'd say you are not being 'held back' at all. That sounds like a very nice scenario if you ask me.

You are also not being held back by consoles any more than you are users with GTX660's or whatever.
 
That's because most games are so poorly optimised mate, we just brute forcing it lol.

But back on topic, just hurry and give us a new bloody gen lol
 
Very good news, with both foundries now supposedly ramping up production on the new process, the next gen cards are getting closer. only a few more months to wait.
 
This 14LPP platform provides three-dimensional, fully-depleted FinFET transistors
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Now that would be something. Interestingly they DO have a 14nm SOI ff process from IBM and a FDSOI node using 14nm xtors but the former is not available yet and the latter is not ff.
 
Finners said:
So AMD are confirmed as 14nm, is nvidia going to be on 16nm?
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14/16nm while difference in numbers wont matter in actual use and implementation.
each can be designed by higher power usage = more performance or by lower power usage =save energy, cooler etc...less performance.
so while its the same node the usage pattern will be different in how its implemented for the hardware.
 
Rroff said:
Don't think they will be producing many GPUs on 14LPP. AFAIK its not really optimised for producing i.e. the next generation Fury X.
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Still wondering what those TSMC orders are for.

Also I assumed they would have their own hush-hush variant @ GF similar to 28SHP for Zen/Greenland. I think that showed up in a slide one time then was never mentioned again by either company. LPP isn't actually much better than LPE, certainly not to the point of using it for the big stuff.
 
Rroff said:
Don't think they will be producing many GPUs on 14LPP. AFAIK its not really optimised for producing i.e. the next generation Fury X.
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Is 16FF+ better in this regard? Or do you think we're looking at Ellesmere/Baffin next year, and a much longer wait for Greenland?
 
Finners said:
So AMD are confirmed as 14nm, is nvidia going to be on 16nm?
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You can't really compare processes like that. When they say 16nm, that is mostly just a marketing term.

I have no idea which process is "better", but don't think that since 14 < 16 the GLOFO process is better, doesn't work like that. I believe both process nodes are actually very similar to the 20nm node that never really saw the light of day.

And even if one process is theoretically better than another in the real-world there are far more variables at hand.
 
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