32nm wafer from GlobalFoundries gets pictured

Posted on Monday, November 09 2009 @ 21:24 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla had the opportunity to take a look at one of the first publicly showcased 32nm wafers from GlobalFoundries. This 300mm test wafer contains some core logic and memory chips and was manufactured by the foundry's Fab 1 in Dresden.
According to Globalfoundries' plans, they will be ready to start 32nm high metal gate, silicon on isolator production in early Q3 2010, at least three quarters behind Intel, but AMD won’t be ready to start making its 32nm Bulldozer chips until some point in 2011.

We are still not aware of any plans for AMD to shrink 45nm Phenom quad, hexa and dual cores to 32nm as this would cost them a lot of engineering time that they now most likely cannot spare.


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