AMD maybe soon to gain acess to 14nm finfets

[Tripp]

Lisa Su:

"This unprecedented collaboration will result in a global capacity footprint for 14nm FinFET technology that provides AMD with enhanced capabilities to bring our innovative IP into silicon on leading-edge technologies," said Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of Global Business Units at AMD. "The work that GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung are doing together will help AMD deliver our next generation of groundbreaking products with new levels of processing and graphics capabilities to devices ranging from low-power mobile devices, to next-generation dense servers to high-performance embedded solutions."

full article: http://techreport.com/news/26336/gl...ung-process-tech-grants-amd-access-to-finfets

 

[RamboOC]

not going to change the fact that amd has crap ipc

 

[barnsley]

not going to change the fact that amd has crap ipc

Then again that doesn't matter much these days for gaming.

 

[Tripp]

i cant see why this wouldn't boost AMD's icp, as well as bringing down there power consumption an potentially heat too

 

[WYP]

Then again that doesn't matter much these days for gaming.

Depends on the game really, for many games, particularly strategy games ATM do benefit greatly from stronger cores rather than many cores.

Games will become much more multi-threaded as DX12, Mantle etc get adopted, as well as the decrease in the CPU-GPU driver bottleneck.

AMD will need to do more in tablet and laptop space to succeed, which means they need to reduce power requirements. A change in node size will help them achieve that.

As far as heat goes, while a node shrink will decrease heat production, there will be more heat generated per unit area, which can make it harder to dissipate. So it is a somewhat double edged sword.

 

[Wraith]

14nm!?! I thought manufacturers were drawing the line at 20nm due to massive production costs, seems a bold step for AMD hope it pays off and we at least see some performance increase because no doubt these are going to be expensive.

 

[barnsley]

Depends on the game really, for many games, particularly strategy games ATM do benefit greatly from stronger cores rather than many cores.

I'm well aware of this however what I meant was that at the moment, Piledriver cpus tend to be fine in most games. People still seem to think that they are bad as bulldozer was. They're not. Hence my (poorly worded) comment.
In all honesty Stratergy games run fine on my cpu, its only really Arma that is noticibly worse running than an intel equivilent.

 

[Zoot]

It's nice to see Samsung and Global Foundries nipping at Intel's heels.

Don't expect products released too soon though, we're probably looking at late 2015 for the earliest.