AMD representatives acknowledged on Friday that TSMC and Globalfoundries can to equal degree pretend to the orders of company for the production of 28 nm microchip. In 2012 on 28 nm technology will be released the mobile processors wichita, Krishna and Hondo with the optimized bobcat architecture. The traditional AMD contractor on the release of graphic processors is TSMC company, will this change ?
The trial parties of 28 nm graphical solutions AMD generation southern islands is already prepared by TSMC. The production of these microcircuits adapts HKMG technology - transistors with the metallized lock and materials with the high value of dielectric constant. In the mass production the corresponding graphical solutions must be available nearer to the end of 2011.
TSMC will release 28 nm processors krishna and Wichita. Mass production of corresponding hybrid processors will start in first half of 2012. The mass production of 28 nm chip by TSMC will start in the fourth quarter this year, the suitable equipment are already mounted on one of the company factories. Thus, Globalfoundries must get a part of orders for the release of hybrid 28 nm processors krishna and Wichita, but by the production of graphical solutions , as before TSMC will be the only contractor ( if we do not consider the hybrid processors llano and Trinity, which are also equipped with graphic system). However, this does not mean that Globalfoundries will not be able to study the release of graphic processors AMD later.