Posted on Wednesday, January 11 2012 @ 0:00 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
GlobalFoundries announced it has begun production at its new Fab 8 in Saratoga County, New York:
The first components to roll off the company's production, GlobalFoundries has confirmed, will be based on the 32nm silicon-on-insulator technology jointly developed by members of IBM's Process Development Alliance, itself based on research conducted at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
Designed, GlobalFoundries claims, to vastly improve performance in the areas of multi-core design and graphics, the same SOI design was used in the chips at the heart of Watson, the supercomputer-cum-expert system that shot to fame as a winning contestant on the US gameshow Jeopardy! early last year.
Source: Bit Tech
