Globalfoundries Accelerates Roadmap: 14nm Chips in 2014
Semiconductor contract manufacturer Globalfoundries announced its vision of future mobile chips and confirmed that it will be offering a 20 nm process in 2013 and 14 nm in 2014.
The company is planning to catch up with Intel's manufacturing process, which is scheduled to shrink to 14 nm in late 2013.
Globalfoudnries said that its 14 nm process, called 14XM (XM stands for "extreme mobility"), will deliver 3D FinFET transistor production capability with planar technology pulled from the 20 nm process to enable a fast transition to 14 nm. For the 2014 transistor generation, Globalfoundries promises a 20 to 55 percent performance advantage over 20 nm devices, while mobile devices using these chips will be able to achieve 40 to 60 percent better battery life.
The production roadmap ties in nicely with previous announcements of an expanded collaboration with ARM that should allow Globalfoundries to attract more ARM manufacturing business. Given the fact that Intel is aggressively moving its manufacturing roadmap as well, and using its manufacturing prowess to make its SoC more competitive, the announcement from Globalfoundries indicates that we will be seeing a very competitive mobile chip market over the next few years.

The jump to quantum computing isn't a matter of getting current design standards miniaturized, it's a whole new paradigm.
Their 32nm node wasn't great, but they've had a few deals and such with Samsung, so they might pull this off. Samsung is most definitely not a slouch in manufacturing as far as I'm aware.
We're probably at least a few decades off of quantum computing getting much relevance in consumer computing.
The jump to quantum computing isn't a matter of getting current design standards miniaturized, it's a whole new paradigm.
I'm sure that Intel and Samsung could do it. So long as GF doesn't wait until after their 28nm and 20nm processes are finished to work on the 14nm process, it could be done on time. All that it would take is using an different tech team to work it out than the one that works on 20nm and have them working at about the same time. I don't claim to knwo if they'll succeed or not, but it is possible and it's also even practical.
if we actually hit the limit of silicon, you u likely to see Intel/AMD start making larger die CPU until it become too big to be profitable b4 they switch to something else other than silicon. Intel Ivy is @ 160mm2 @ 22nm, Haswell retain the 4 core, so we still got some room to grow die size to 300-400mm2. *Nehelem 1156 is 296mm2 tho.
It gets more difficult and more difficult to make such large CPU dies with smaller and smaller processes, especially without dropping frequencies at least a little. Die shrinks seem to shrink the size by much more than they shrink the power consumption at a given frequency, so it'd take serious CPU design improvements to counteract this.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/01/20/ibm-and-globalfoundries-go-gate-last-for-20/1
GF is still WAY behind.
Oh no, they're way behind because they decided to change from gate-first to gate-last processes. Also, what difficulties is Intel having with their FinFET tech?
Furthermore, problems with one process doesn't mean that they'll have problems with much newer processes even if they're a smaller process.
And ramping up to 14nm means actual retail 14nm chips will come out in 2015 right?
I wish them luck.
Yeah i guess that's why Intel waits at least two years before the next shrink...
Intel waits two years because it is convenient, not because they have to wait. Why have a die shrink every year when they can do just fine with a die shrink every two years or so? If it was difficult and they needed more time, then they'd just get separate teams working on each die shrink simultaneously and they could churn out a die shrink as often as they want to until nothing more can be had from die shrinking without some other technology changes.