32nm process no problem

Intel's Sandy Bridge with its second-generation 32nm technology has been released. AMD still stays in the 45nm era. Recently, there are signs that the progress of the new GlobalFoundries process still seems to be unsettling, but it has been quickly denied.

There were unofficial sources in November last year that AMD will eventually put into production bulldozer architecture in April 2011 and Llano APU fusion processors in July, both using the GlobalFoundries 32nm process. As for the server version of the bulldozer may be It is put into operation from May to June.

Daniel Berenbaum, an analyst at U.S. investment company Auriga, said in a recent report: “People are generally skeptical about AMD's ability to perform, and our data shows that this concern is actually worse. With the delay of the launch of the GlobalFoundries 32nm production line. , and the value of the Fusion product has been questioned, we will still (ask for AMD) skepticism."

However, Jon Carvill, vice president of global public relations for GlobalFoundries, responded immediately and said: “Our 32nm process has absolutely no changes. Our progress is very smooth. We are planning to start production and will support AMD’s products shipments on schedule in the first half of 2011.”

Jon Peddie, the founder and chief analyst of Jon Peddie Research, a famous market research institution, also supported the above remarks: “At the end of September last year, I visited the Dresden plant of GlobalFoundries (Germany). In November, I was in ATIC (United Arab Emirates). The company paid a visit to their high-level people and investors.At CES, I talked with them again.I got the 32nm Llano chip wafer and got (GlobalFoundries) unanimous assurances that not only the production process is going well, Yields are also higher than expected. At this moment, AMD is shipping the first samples."