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I find it interesting the article seems surprised AMD said nothing. AMD for a long time was a major owner of shares of global foundries. GloFo Spent a while buy
by anfilt 5y ago
I find it interesting the article seems surprised AMD said nothing. AMD for a long time was a major owner of shares of global foundries. GloFo Spent a while buying the stake that AMD held. AMD is still using GloFo for it's IO dies as they don't need the densest nodes. Heck AMD just this May announced it's gonna buy an other 1.6 billion dollars worth of wafers from GloFlo.
- ksec 5y ago>I find it interesting the article seems surprised AMD said nothing. AMD doesn't use 10nm or 7nm from GF. So it doesn't bother AMD at all. The continuation of IOD was mostly because of price. Basically GF has no leverage on their 14nm and AMD are their only customer. GF either find a customer to use those capacity or turn it to something else other customer would need like their FD-SOI node. I do wish AMD could move IOD away from GF though. They need some node optimisation for power efficiency.
- anfilt 5y agoI would have to find it again but a while ago I was looking at thermal images of AMDs chipslets and the IO die is pretty cool compared to the chiplets for the cores. There probably is some power savings for using a newer node for the IO dies, but it would minor compared to the cores.