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AMD Confirms 32nm Yield Issues at Global Foundries

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dennilfloss said:
OMG! 9 whole months behind! What calamity!! Surely it's the end of the world! 🙄
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Actually, as someone else posted, I was incorrect and it is more like 20+ months behind. But never mind, some people insist on minimizing or ignoring AMDs weaknesses and problems no matter what. I dont see how any objective observer can not admit that Intel is far ahead of AMD in process development and foundary capacity. I mean they are almost ready to go to 22nm, and AMD is still trying to sort out 45 and 32 nm.
:I roll my eyes too!!:
 
Did they shift some capacity to TMSC? It would help explain the drought of supply of their high end GPUs over the summer.
 
senseamp said:
AMD has a lot of patents too. Could make more money patent trolling than making chips 😀
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Like OPTi? 😀

Idontcare said:
Market cap is a mere $4.25B!?

That's a buyout target, even if to just take private.
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Any candidates? I'm not seeing IBM or Oracle up for the take. :hmm:

frozentundra123456 said:
Actually, as someone else posted, I was incorrect and it is more like 20+ months behind. But never mind, some people insist on minimizing or ignoring AMDs weaknesses and problems no matter what. I dont see how any objective observer can not admit that Intel is far ahead of AMD in process development and foundary capacity. I mean they are almost ready to go to 22nm, and AMD is still trying to sort out 45 and 32 nm.
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You can also lay some of those responsibility on IBM who is AMD's joint process development partner (blast from the past, 45nm crickets >> Intel or IBM Transistor Breakthrough???). Its not easy trying to play catch up with a juggernaut... :hmm:
 
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BlueBlazer said:
Any candidates? I'm not seeing IBM or Oracle up for the take. :hmm:
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Bite your tounge, sir! I shudder at the thought of Oracle buying AMD. Suddenly all processors would double in price plus you would have a yearly per core support fee. CPU's wouldn't be so bad, but GPU's with all those stream processors...
 
OCGuy said:
And the process lead grows and grows for Intel...

AMD is having problems with 45nm still, and Intel is deciding when to ramp up 22nm..
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Not sure if serious. Their 45nm process is extremely mature.

Supply issues does not equal yield issues. The problem is that GlobalFoundries can't manufacture enough of them.
 
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LOL_Wut_Axel said:
Not sure if serious. Their 45nm process is extremely mature.

Supply issues does not equal yield issues. The problem is that GlobalFoundries can't manufacture enough of them.
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Suffice it to say this is not the type of news AMD needs or wants just before the scheduled launch of the Bulldozer chips.
 
LOL_Wut_Axel said:
Not sure if serious. Their 45nm process is extremely mature.

Supply issues does not equal yield issues. The problem is that GlobalFoundries can't manufacture enough of them.
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A business news channel they didn't mention any 45 nm issues, just that AMD supplier Global Foundries "is having issues manufacturing chips at 32 nanometers".

They also remarked that demand for AMD's 32 nm chips remains high and that this is a short-term revenue problem. They remarked that low supply for your product is generally preferable to low demand for it.
 
ExarKun333 said:
5-15% yields on the A8 sounds atrocious.
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Would also explain the power and TDP specs...they are opening up the binning limits to pretty much snag anything and everything that can be clocked with all 4 cores and SPs functioning.

Gives me much hope for the future as when the process does mature we can expect to see lots of room for improvement in the spec's and capabilities of entire SKU's.
 
Idontcare said:
Would also explain the power and TDP specs...they are opening up the binning limits to pretty much snag anything and everything that can be clocked with all 4 cores and SPs functioning.

Gives me much hope for the future as when the process does mature we can expect to see lots of room for improvement in the spec's and capabilities of entire SKU's.
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Also explains why AMD decided to pay GlobalFoundries for working wafers only instead of all wafers
 
BladeVenom said:
So what are you suggesting? An Anandtech group buy? Time to move this to the Hot Deals section?
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Have you seen the "how much have you spent at newegg" thread? I think if we just pool our resources, we can make it happen, and it might end up saving us money versus having to pay retail for all our CPUs.
 
i could really see nabisco getting into the market based solely on their % yield. and don't even get me started on their price points
 
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