GlobalFoundries shows 45nm Istanbul, 32nm SOI, 28nm SRAM Bulk
GlobalFoundries is a little known independent silicon manufacturer that spun off from AMD in March of this year. They are responsible for taking care of the manufacturing operations at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), so basically the old AMD fabs are now known as GlobalFoundries. It seems that GlobalFoundries had a meeting in Taiwan today with the media showing off new and upcoming technologies that will soon be offered to customers other than just AMD. GlobalFoundries is here to make a profit, so no longer will it be just AMD products being made there.
At the press conference GlobalFoundries had a few wafers on hand and one of them was the 45nm AMD Istanbul wafer! Yes, that would be the upcoming six-core processor! These wafers are being buit at Fab 1 Module 1 in Dresden, Germany. If you look at the Istanbul wafer below you can actually see the six cores per chip! If that isn’t far out enough GlobalFoundries also showed off 28nm technology on a wafer of SRAM Bulk and said that it will be ready for the market in late 2010/early 2011 and that GlobalFoundries will be taking orders for 28nm in early 2010. The 28nm technology will also be the 3rd generation of immersion lithography and 2nd generation High-K metal gate design. People in the industry are looking forward to the 28nm process for video cards… The future is looking good!!
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