7nm

According to a Digitimes report, TSMC has received new orders for the production of 7nm and 5nm AI chips in 2019. AI chips are expected to lead the demand for TSMC's sub-10nm chip capabilities over smartphone SoC's as smartphone manufacturers take a wait and see approach to phone sales. As...

AMD has officially confirmed that the AMD Ryzen 7 2800H processor is more energy efficient than current 2017 models and will have a 2018 release date. Rumors about this new processor have been making the rounds since June as it and a Ryzen 5 2600H reportedly showed up in the Ashes of the...

AMD just confirmed to us that EPYC ZEN 2 CPUs are well on the way to being sampled into datacenters in the 2nd half of 2018. Forrest Norrod assured us that Zen 3, Zen 4, and Zen 5 were steadily being worked on and would bring performance and feature upgrades certainly. He explained that the...

An article from The Motley Fool today outlines how Intel's troubled 10nm manufacturing may end up falling even further behind TSMC. Intel had originally planned to release it's 10nm chips in 2016, which was pushed to 2017, then pushed again to 2018, then a few weeks ago 10nm was delayed yet...

Cannonlake What is Cannonlake? Cannonlake was apparently meant to be the succesor to Skylake, featuring 8 cores on the mainstream desktop with a token IPC jump of 5%~, but due to 10nm woes Desktop and Server Cannonlake were scrapped and were replaced with two 14nm desktop lineup slot ins...

The Korean English Language ET News site has a story up about Samsung making major investments to ramp up and expand it's 10nm FinFET lines starting next month. Current production volumes produce 25,000 10nm wafers per month with high yields. The planned expansions add another 18,000 wafers per...

Article. SemiWiki.com - SEMICON West - Globalfoundries Update Saw it on Reddit. Gary started the interview by pointing out that it has now been a year since the GlobalFoundries purchase of many of IBM's semiconductor assets and they have hit every commitment they made. They had a black eye...