Order for the release of 14 nm solutions Apple gave to the group Samsung-GlobalFoundries. Experimental production of 14-nm semiconductor using FinFET transistors start at the end of this year, and the first commercial deliveries solutions of the current generation will appear in early 2015. Potential of the factory Fab 8 GlobalFoundries - is 60,000 300mm wafers per month. TSMC company that can oppose 900,000 wafers with 20-nm and 16-nm chips in 2015 and to 1.3 million wafers in 2016. Like Samsung, TSMC company will fight for the right to produce 16-nm processors from Apple.
We know that GlobalFoundries company has licensed technology from the company Samsung to produce 14-nm semiconductor. However, there are doubts that GlobalFoundries will have time to implement these rules until the end of this year. Anyway, if we talk about the full production cycle. At the same time there is a probability that Samsung will be able to use, for example, the same factory Fab 8 GlobalFoundries. In this case, the tandem Samsung-GlobalFoundries really can all get done on time.
Separately, the representative of Singapore plants GlobalFoundries said that partial re-scheduled processing lines with 200-mm wafers to 300 mm. Will be delivered for this used equipment Taiwanese company ProMOS Technologies, which was previously used for the production of computer memory, and that GlobalFoundries company acquired in 2013 . Optional in Singapore factories GlobalFoundries process technology with the norms of 110-130 nm will be replaced by 40-nm.