The absence of updated AMD plans in SkyBridge solutions, which would ensure interoperability within a single system processor architecture ARM and x86, respectively, alerted some of our colleagues, and they were quick to declare that the problem with the development of GlobalFoundries 20-nm process technology has become one of the reasons for AMD to refuse the promotion of this initiative.
Colleagues from the site Fudzilla, meanwhile, managed to get from anonymous representatives of GlobalFoundries information about the ability of this company to mass-produce 20-nm products. They are offered to multiple customers, and some of them even can be purchased as part of finished products. Colleagues come to the conclusion that on promotion SkyBridge, AMD has kept the lack of demand and economic feasibility, and not technological problems of the contractor.
Fudzilla in a separate publication hastens to add that the development of processors with ARM-architecture K12 with limited budget and time was given the lowest priority, and is now the most important task for AMD is bringing to market in 2016 processors with x86-compatible architecture Zen. And after that you can bring to mind the architecture K12 - using its processors now expected no earlier than 2017, as it became known earlier this month after a meeting of AMD representatives with analysts.