According to yesterday's statement from Samsung and GlobalFoundries, chips using 14-nm FinFET transistors and enterprise companies begin to produce large quantities at the end of this year.
At a press conference on the report on the work in the first calendar quarter journalists do not miss the chance to ask the same question to the Director of global business units of the company, Lisa Su . AMD not only have to use 14-nanometer process technology and a vertical transistors, but also to adopt new semiconductor wafers - the so-called fully depleted substrate FD-SOI (fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator).
As you probably know, GlobalFoundries company and AMD abandoned the use of SOI-substrates under development 28-nm process technology. Using SOI-wafers afford certain advantages. Additional insulating layer significantly reduced leakage currents and allows the transistor to work faster and with fewer losses. But the lowering of production scale SOI-wafer processing complicated. Intel, do not use SOI and felt good at the same time. This load lovingly dragged on themselves, IBM and all participants Common Platform Alliance, together with its member companies, Samsung and GlobalFoundries.