In the middle of this year, Intel CEO was forced to admit that the so-called "Moore's Law", which determines the rate of increase in transistor density per unit area of the chip, increase the step up to two and a half years. Each new stage lithographic technology require not only increased cost and effort, but additional time for development and implementation.
Chapter AMD Lisa Su at a recent conference Credit Suisse explained that referred to as "Moore's Law" rule of thumb is an important factor in determining the success of the market participant high-performance processors. In this situation, with rising costs of manufacturers of semiconductor products, AMD is very pleased that it can focus on those activities where a unique competitive advantage.
As noted today, under the FinFET-AMD technology in the next year will be based on 16-nm and 14-nm process technology by TSMC and GlobalFoundries