Rumor: AMD Working with TSMC for Bulldozer Manufacturing
When AMD spun off its manufacturing arm as GlobalFoundries back in 2009, it was assumed their controlling interest would drive the bulk of its investments in the same direction. AMD has been forced to use TSMC, a rival to GlobalFoundries in recent years to keep pace in the graphics card wars, however new rumors are suggesting Bulldozer might be forced to shift over as well.
The move would be a strong indication of issues with GlobalFoundries 32 nm HKMG node, and doesn’t bode well for GlobalFoundries as an independent chip maker if the two companies can’t maintain a strong partnership. It’s possible AMD is working with GlobalFoundries to gear up for Bulldozer’s APU successor code named “Piledriver”, but since current APU’s already come from TSMC it’s anyone’s guess at this point.
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icepick
October 21, 2011 at 6:24pm
AMD has wanted to limit their product line to CPUs for decades now, and it has always caused them problems. They haven't been able to get memory that will keep pace with their CPUs since the Athlon first came out. So they kept multiplying past the FSB, and finally dumped it completely. And we all know what that resistance to making chipsets cost them. But this is difficult to understand. They dumped Intel and went with the EV2 BUS because the Intel design wouldn't cut it. Why did they fail to move on these supporting products? Their concept is still superior, but they're in such a hole that they can't develop their concepts further until they get the fab thing right. And they really, really need to develop memory that will keep pace with that BUS concept of theirs. Didn't somebody just develop an all metal memory chip that smokes?
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praack
October 17, 2011 at 9:52am
Logical choice if you cannot get the yield or quality out of the plant. If the only leverage you have left is the orders you place then you start to shift orders.
Global Foundries is independant - and I do not doubt they were working under the impression that they had garunteed contracts with AMD - between the change to working processor from the prior way of purchasing full wafer and now the potential of losing full product lines to competitors- it will be up to Global to show intiative
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QUINTIX256
October 16, 2011 at 5:46pm
Is it really that hard to create a word-filter for "very good web" and "===", and identical links repeated 5 times?
That aside, to quote SemiAccurate, GloFlo is the only fab with 32nm in production other than intel... scratch that. Intel is not a fab. GloFlo is the only fab with 32nm in production.
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Kamicrit
October 16, 2011 at 12:26pm
Being the blue collar guy I am.
Even if AMD has a lacking flagship CPU, at least they have cool codenames.
The construction equipment names are kinda cool. Will be looking foward to Piledriver and Excavator.
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Hamburger
October 17, 2011 at 5:57am
So when they are finished putting out verious CPUs with various contruction eqipment code names, will they combine them to form Devastator? j/k
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SkinnyZeroOne
October 16, 2011 at 9:58pm
What's that thing that digs tunnels? Think they need that name next cause they're digging themselves into a nice one & aren't likely to come out at the other end. I recently replaced an aging AM2+ board with Gigabyte's AM3+ UD7 just to be able to take my CPU (955BE) with me -- I had the DDR3 ram but couldn't afford a i2600K and a board otherwise I would have jumped AMD's ship. Been on AMD's side now over a decade & was really hoping that Bulldozer would be a nice performer .... Oh well. They're done. Toast.
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zaphodbeeblebrox 42
October 16, 2011 at 5:03pm
bulldozers are used to make bridges. speaking of bridges. sandybridge anyone?
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