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limit to future shrinks

They still talk about going beneath 10 nm, apparently the distance between silicon atoms is 0.3 nm so at what point it not go smaller?

posted by : Andrew, 02 June 2009 Complain about this comment
G'day Sylvie!

Cut me a slice of that diecious New York Style sweet-n-sour Asian pizza and secretly snuggle it out of old Taipei. Just keep it haut.

posted by : Facetious GloFoGling, 02 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Good news from GloFlo

Good to hear that GloFlo's issues were more with capital access than with talent.

And congrats to them on progress at 32nm and 28nm. What's next? 15nm?

posted by : Rich Wargo, 02 June 2009 Complain about this comment
rEwRITABLE waffers.....

Ok 3+1- 4770 cards into 4 FULL 16X pci-e, say 4.6 GHz/s nehli, & your get 64 2.0-16X LANES Potential for NewMain or PENTIUM II true W/ Hypertheading & Boost. This IS Good Vision.

Yet After Grape Jelly Wears off, Its Still Old Kitchen Table & yes,yes, Fart My Asce OFF, Dual GPU Models to Follow.

Alleaged multi Core Marketier, In colorful Diamond & Silk. Trade Your Ivory TUSKS For BenchMark.

Balance Hasn't BEEN Taught In School of HARD Knocks, Assuming People Want Much LESS Than Paid for, Yet, Some Ultee', HIGH I.Q. & que one, why is it so HARD for oriental Mind to UnderStand?

Then: Kiddnap BoToxEta,Too.

These GOALS Are MUCH More Important As Nm Scale reachs Absolute Limit. Remember Each Cor of Ultee' Pat PEND, WorkStation Main superProcessor multi core is 2.0 Ghz/s, Y2K, limit often fabled. Seldom, if ever, exceeded. So Thats it Folks!

From FlaiLIng ARMS of BUD.

posted by : vondrashek, 02 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Ish

They are catching up with implementing though in reality they were never behind in terms of technology. Intel with, what is it, 364 fab's can just incredibly easily shut one down to change over to a new process with ease as they don't need to run any of their fabs at max capacity.

Amd have the problem of limited fabs and downtime hurts them far more. I think the dell deal really hurt AMD as much as it helped in so much as, they suddenly had a massive contract where they HAD to provide a certain number of chips, the time involved in shutting a fab down and switching to a new process is incredibly strained and due to their commitments they had to delay and delay till the yields were so good they could cope with the downtime. Thats seemingly the main reason for AMD's slow transition over to 65nm originally and 45nm though that was somewhat quicker.

Now they honestly have the money to push through new process's faster and accept the loss in production, deep pockets go a LONG way in these situations. LIkewise when AMD have their NY fab up and running it will get easier and quicker to switch to new processes.

posted by : DM, 02 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Catching up with Intel

If GloFo can deliver 32nm in 1H10, does this mean that they are catching up with Intel?
(with Intel's 32nm due in late '09)

posted by : Phil, 02 June 2009 Complain about this comment

GlobalFoundries goes wafer waggling

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