AMD company expects to implement FinFET-layout of transistors within a 16-nm process technology , and in 2016, may enter the market supports x86-based architecture Zen . If we consider that this week TSMC actively shared information about their plans for the transition to 16-nm technology using FinFET, we can say with confidence that the relevant products will hit the market in 2016. TSMC customers now expect in 2015 to master pilot production of 45 products using 16-nanometer technology and FinFET, among these solutions will not only chip for mobile devices and telecommunications equipment, but also GPUs and CPUs for PCs and servers.
Italian colleagues from the site Bits & Chips enlisted the support of our own sources, and now it allows them to claim that TSMC will be in 2016, serial production of AMD processors for servers and PCs to 16-nm technology using FinFET. These processors can have up to 20 cores - a property that is useful in the server segment. However, according to the source, will have to be patient - the mass production of these processors will be set up only in the second half of 2016.
Until now, the release of AMD's productive preferred trust Globalfoundries, although TSMC produces for the company not only graphics processors, but also part of the hybrid solutions with integrated graphics. However, the head of AMD recently said that the company is equally valued partnership with TSMC and Globalfoundries, and the choice of a contractor to perform a particular order is determined solely by the rational and economic criteria.