Globalfoundries abandons 7nm

[ZenOps]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13277/globalfoundries-stops-all-7nm-development

Uh oh. Intel getting absolutely shellacked at 10nm. Could this be the day that semiconductors do not get faster, cheaper, and more energy efficient?

[rage2]

Apple and TSMC says hi.

2018 iPhones all alone with their 7nm A12 CPUs.

[Xtrema]

Apple and TSMC says hi.

2018 iPhones all alone with their 7nm A12 CPUs.

https://hexus.net/media/uploaded/2018/9/7acc8c36-f35e-420a-be82-29b36fe28839.jpg


Huawei emailed HEXUS to announce that it was preparing to release several new devices featuring the new 7nm flagship SoC. The first such devices will be the Mate 20 series of phones, launching 16th October, 2018. Furthermore, the Honor Magic 2 will come packing the Kirin 980.

Apple won't be alone.

https://wccftech.com/snapdragon-855-geekbench-alleged-impressive-single-core/

And won't be for long, as SD855 will debut next year for other Android phones that isn't Huawei.


That said, I want to give iPhone Xs a shake down to get a feel what the other side is like.

[Mitsu3000gt]

Should be tons of other 7nm stuff coming out very soon within the next 3-4 months: AMD NAVI GPUs, Ryzen 2 (Q1 2019), Snapdragon 855, Kirin 980, MediaTek M70, Samsung Exynon 9820 (2H18 - and claiming 5nm in 2019, 4nm 2020, 3nm 2021), etc. etc. Seems like I read about a new 7nm every other day haha. 5nm and 3nm is the new hotness.

Samsung Semiconductor and TSMC are still going at it AFAIK.

[ZenOps]

I dunno. Nvidia is going mass production on 12nm for high power videocards.

Yields *could* be pretty bad on any 7nm process. They probably have a better chance with LowPower chips for cellphones, but the high wattage chips might be in stall mode.

I might have to blame millennials soon.