Recently, the chief technologist and technical director of AMD, in an interview with one industry resource, admitted that the transition to a 7-nm process technology will require significant costs, and that his company intends to use it throughout the life cycle of several consecutive generations of products. At least in the segment of processors on 7-nm technology will be produced and products with the architecture of Zen 2, and their successors Zen 3. Company's contractors will master EUV-lithography no earlier than 2019, and this critical moment for the whole industry will also fall on the "era 7-nm process technology. "
At the quarterly report conference Lisa Su only stressed that the 7-nm process technology will play a key role in the production of both central and graphics processors, and they will be produced by several contractors. And if you can talk about the involvement of Samsung in this group of partners mainly theoretically, then TSMC and GlobalFoundries will be attracted exactly .
AMD CEO notes, then mastering the 7-nm process technology is going well. Parallel work is carried out by several teams of specialists, and this allows Liza Su to believe that several subsequent generations of AMD products will have high competitiveness.