Global Foundries shows off 28nm wafer

Posted on Tuesday, January 12 2010 @ 19:48 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Semi Accurate reports GlobalFoundries displayed a 28nm wafer at CES 2010.

Global Foundries representatives would not talk about what chips were on that wafer, but they were definitely not the test SRAM structures that we saw in June. The new wafers were quite irregular in appearance, so they could be CPU or GPU chips, or they could be some very advanced test structures. Given the size ballparks at over 300mm^2, they are unlikely to be ARM cores, but they could be advanced SOCs based on ARM designs.

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