Report: Sub-40 nm Processes Account for 27% of Global Wafer Capacity
According to IC Insights, at the end of 2012, 27 percent of capacity was used for devices with geometries smaller than 40 nm.
At the end of 2012, sub-40 nm processes accounted for 27 percent of global wafer capacity, followed by 2.18 percent for 80 nm to 0.2µ “mature process nodes” and 18.8 percent for 40 nm to 60 nm geometries.
The increased prevalence of 40 nm or smaller geometries has been attributed to its use in high-density DRAM, which are typically built using 30 nm-class to 20 nm-class process technologies; high-density flash memory devices that are based on 20 nm-class to 10 nm-class processes; and high-performance microprocessors and advanced ASIC/ASSP/FPGA devices based on 32 nm, 28 nm or 22 nm technologies.
IC Insights further noted that Samsung Electronics was the largest supplier of ICs built using sub-40 nm geometries at the end of 2012 followed closely by Intel, Toshiba / SanDisk, SK Hynix and Micron Technology. Additionally, they noted that process technologies with geometries greater than 0.4-micron maintain "a fairly large share" of the global installed capacity due to large quantities of commodity-type devices such as standard analog and general-purpose logic ICs.
Yeah. You are. And, you're not even doing it well.
Ontario/Zacate (Bobcat) ---> Krishna/Wichita is/was TSMC.
(as will be Kabini/Temash (Jaguar) APUs)
Yeah. You are. And, you're not even doing it well.
Ontario/Zacate (Bobcat) ---> Krishna/Wichita is/was TSMC.
(as will be Kabini/Temash (Jaguar) APUs)
I actually like AMD quite a bit. It just sucks that GF is way way behind on 28nm. Krishna/Wichita was GF here is proof http://www.extremetech.com/computing/106217-manufacturing-bombshell-amd-cancels-28nm-apus-starts-from-scratch-at-tsmc The whole reason that we have been stuck with TSMC 40nm Ontario/Zacate for so long after AMD has had large 28nm GPU's from TSMC 28nm is because Krishna/Wichita were designed for GF's gate-first 28nm process and TSMC's 28nm is gate-last (well there are a bunch of other reasons like design rules and such). So the new Kabini/Tesmash have better cpu cores than Krishna/Wichita and they have upgraded to a GCN gpu as well. So AMD did not simply just port what they had from GF to TSMC they just skipped a whole generaton and went on to the next. GF does claim that they are catching up with the 20nm and 14nm-XM and it would be nice for AMD if GF actually can stick to there roadmap this time. Here is a good article on how semidconductor manufactorers take a larger process and make smaller nm class devices with it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patterning