AMD shifts all its 7nm chip production to TSMC and shuts down GlobalFoundries
It is announced by AMD that they are bringing all GlobalFoundries 7nm chip production to TSMC and that this will not affect their Roadmap.
Although AMD has managed to resurrect and return to the market for internal processors with force, they do not seem to work at all well and more when Raja Koduri, Jim Keller and Chris Hook have gone to Intel. Now the company is immersed in another problem and it seems that they are leaving GlobalFoundries aside for the manufacture of chips under the 7nm lithography to go to TSMC, a curious case.
AMD leaves GlobalFoundries and cedes 7nm chip manufacturing to TSMC
Mark Papermaster, Technical Director of AMD has published an article highlighting that there will not be the slightest change in the company's Roadmap. This includes several 7nm products such as a 7nm Vega GPU manufactured by TSMC, in addition to it is already planned that they will manufacture EPYC 2 that will arrive in 2019. In addition, the Taiwanese manufacturer goes on to produce Zen 2 and Navi that are also based on 7nm.
"Our work with TSMC on its 7nm node has gone very well and we have seen excellent results," Papermaster highlights in the note. It also highlights in the note itself that the change from GlobalFoundries to TSMC is due to a 'flexible production strategy' on the part of the company.
Moor Insights Director Pat Moorhead noted that all of AMD's 7nm designs were already based on the TSMC manufacturing process. "I don't think AMD had any relevant 7nm designs on GlobalFoundries," he posted on his Twitter account.
Everything indicates that this movement would take time to develop between AMD and TSMC. The reason is that GlobalFoundries is losing a lot of steam in the production of high-performance chips because TSMC is managing to outperform them quite clearly. We will see how GlobalFoundries reacts but they look rough for the company.
Integrated Note from AMD:
Over the past few years, we have consistently executed our multi-generational leadership architectural and product roadmap across our CPU and GPU portfolio. Our upcoming 7nm product pipeline represents the next major milestone for AMD's computing and graphics leadership, featuring our second-generation " Zen 2 " CPU core and our new " Navi " GPU architecture.
We have already created several 7nm products at TSMC, including our first 7nm GPU, which is planned to launch later this year , and our first 7nm server CPU, which we have tested for strategic customers and plan to launch in 2019.
Our work with TSMC on their 7nm node has been going very well , and we are seeing excellent results from early silicon. To optimize our development and closely align our investments with those of our foundry partners, we are announcing today our intention to focus the breadth of our 7nm product portfolio on TSMC's industry-leading 7nm manufacturing process and leverage the additional investments GLOBALFOUNDRIES is making in 14nm/12nm technologies to support our current generation of AMD Ryzen, Radeon, and EPYC silicon.
Source: PCWorld
