Lump sum payment on a new five-year agreement with GlobalFoundries in the amount of $ 340 million left AMD in the third quarter without net profit . At least talking about the new features in the framework of this agreement, Lisa Su highlighted the presence of AMD alternative sources of orders output - both in the 14-nm process technology, and within a 7-nm process technology. Chapter AMD even made it clear that this is more flexibility in the choice of contractor needs in relation to the 7-nm manufacturing production.
Immediately AMD CEO admitted that the company will order different contractors to release 14-nm and 16-nm products, determining the choice of performers on various factors: the complexity of the product, the terms and the necessary quantity of finished products, as well as considerations of cost optimization. On what 14-nm products for AMD GlobalFoundries produces, we have a pretty good idea: it is GPUs Ellesmere and Baffin Polaris generation , and CPUs Summit Ridge with Zen architecture. Meanwhile, Lisa Su admitted that in the past six months, AMD has adjusted release at the facilities of subcontractors five new products using FinFET-structures. Three of them we have just listed, and all of them are available on the 14-nm technology company GlobalFoundries.
How, then, here are wedged 16-nm AMD products manufacturer which likely remains TSMC? Firstly, in game consoles Sony PlayStation 4 Pro just seen "custom" AMD solutions, which can be produced by TSMC on that same 16-nm technology with FinFET. Here is the fourth "new product with FinFET", mastered by AMD for the past six months. .
According to Lisa Su, clients like Microsoft and Sony do not have much influence on the specifics of the distribution of orders between AMD contractors. It only admitted that the presence of the two contractors at the stage of the launch of five new products FinFET-enabled to provide security of supply, as well as the reduced terms of the development of new technological processes to historically minimal quantities. Related Products :
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