AMD in a conference with the JPMorgan bank ensures that its plans are that by the end of the year the first 7nm chips can begin to be manufactured, so that the AMD Ryzen based on Zen 2018 and the Navi graphics will reach the market in 2.
The surprises around AMD Ryzen do not end and it is that new information has appeared offered by the CEO of AMD, Lisa Su, who in a conference call with the largest bank in the world JPMorgan, has confirmed that the company's plans are very aggressive and They want to get ahead of technology, revealing their plans, which is to have the 7nm manufacturing process developed by the end of this year, something that has surprised everyone.
Basically, the idea is that the schematics of the products leave the design process for integration in circuits, PCBs or any other manufactured product, are sent so that the circuit or design is sent to the company and it is ready to be manufactured. This whole process usually takes a year of work between the production of the schematics and when they finally reach the market. This process can take a little longer than the normal manufacturing process, since the products once made must pass a series of controls to verify that they are correct, avoiding the existence of defective batches, which delays the arrival of the products to the market. .
If we talk about the AMD Ryzen processors based on AMD Zen 2 and the new Navi GPUs, we talk about a manufacturing process for these 7nm chips, which skips the 10nm that Intel launched with the Cannon Lake. We must emphasize that Intel does develop the processes internally and create its own chips, but AMD depends on the development work of GlobalFoundries, which is the one who works in the development and implementation of the different architecture development processes, therefore the AMD's schedule for 7nm is directly dependent on GlobalFoundries. This means that any failure in development, delay in it or any other problem with this 7nm process, would be a serious problem for AMD.
[quote bcolor=»#dd3333″]Yes, our goal is to be very competitive in terms of our long-term roadmap. If you look at the 7nm roadmap versus some of the other technologies out there, it’s actually very competitive. And I think the gap between kind of the foundry roadmap and like Intel’s roadmap has gotten closer. Our goal is to be aggressive on 7nm. We’re going to do the tape-outs by the end of the year. And as we get closer to production, we’ll give more insight at that time. But the idea is to be very competitive across the product range. Lisa Su told JPMorgan.[/quote]
Here the success or failure of AMD with the AMD Ryzen based on Zen 2 and the Navi in 7nm does not depend on AMD, it depends on whether GlobalFoundries is able to reach the requirements demanded by AMD in the deadlines that the company has designated, something that It doesn't seem tremendously complicated. It should be noted that Intel is currently with the 10nm process, something that seems quite logical, but the problem is that AMD skipped a generation, therefore it wants to run the same more than it should in this regard.
Source: overclock3d
I do not think it runs more than it should ... in fact it seems to me that it is necessary since if AMD launches a new revision of ZEN to some presumed 14nm + with slight or no improvements in the architecture, for ZEN2 there would be very little room for improvement, as well as Navi could be greatly affected by the new manufacturing process. On the other hand, it seems to me that there must be a relatively small difference as a result of both nodes, that of Intel at 10nm and GloFo at 7nm, due to the density of transistors that Intel has been able to offer in its developments.
Perhaps it is better to reach the limit and mature it, optimize it and exploit it if redundancy is worth the limit, or obviously while waiting for the replacement of silicon.
If AMD announced it, it is because it must know something concrete about GloFo's advance to risk going public and set its times, so let's hope that there is only a little left to see more details.
Edit: AMD or Run and gain strength now that it is seeing the light or intel returns it to the shadow where it was!