what are some other interesting (big cores or big GPU) products coming out on 22FDX (or related)?
Oracle M8+ which is the last Oracle chip since M9 was cancelled. Which is launching between 11.5 and 11.6 Solaris 11.next.
- Either from Samsung's S1 or S2 Fab for 18FDS(Plus?) or GlobalFoundries 12FDX @ Fab 1 or Fab 8.
// Oracle around ~2014 was aware of FinFET vs FDSOI. At the time they were looking at SOI FinFETs over Bulk FinFETs, so 14HP/14HP+ could also be M8+. Unless, they are following IBM to UTBB FDSOI. Which since, they never went FinFET and stayed Planar, the only choice is 12FDX. As 12FDX has a shrink in CPP/track height and a shrink in Mx compared to 20SoC/20HP @ TSMC.
IBM POWER9+/z14+ will most likely use a 14HP+ design which will support MRAM/ReRAM/etc. POWER10 and next-gen Z will be re-architected from "10HP" to 12FDX or 7FDX.
AMD's Excavator and Jaguar depending on whats cheapest to be the successor to Stoney Ridge. There is also Oland with the Small Vega, Cape Verde -> Polaris 12 -> Vega 12. Oland went Iceland, but nothing after that. So, that is prime for 22FDX/22FDX+.
Stoney Ridge -> "Blank" in the Ax/Fx continutation series. // 22FDX -> 12FDX
Iceland/Topaz -> Vega 16?/Navi 16? sub-RX 640 // 22FDX -> 12FDX
Generally speaking dGPU would be sub-100 mm squared and APU would be sub-125 mm squared. So, it could get the 22FDX LP treatment at any time.
Rockchip OP2 and OP2 Pro could be 22FDX with Cortex A76 + Cortex A55.
HiSilicon has an empty space for Kirin 94x for 22FDX. Which most likely be purely Cortex A55. Not really big core or anything.
MediaTek's Helio P18; MT6755S successor could also be 22FDX. With Helio P22/P60 both having a successor in 12FDX.
//Requirement is 22FDX+ gets near 22-nm HP ETSOI in drive current via other means than in the 22ETSOI strains of 2012. For 12FDX to match well in the high performance area. No FinFETs pretty much push investment towards this.
GlobalFoundries if going down the FDX path need to do more than just 22HP perf as well.
1. Malta needs to start 22FDX soon. Dresden needs to port RF 22FDX to Singapore.
2. After Chengdu starts, Dresden/Malta need to expedite 12FDX. Once the ramp is finish GloFo will want to port 12FDX to Chengdu(1st) and Singapore(2nd).
Getting all 300mm fabs to 22FDX and later 12FDX will be a revenue resource that will allow them to GigaFab all of them. >100,000 per month at four foundries will put it on-par with TSMC.
In regards, to big dies with AMD. FDSOI's architecture will be derived from both Excavator and Jaguar. 22FDX => XV/JG fusion, 12FDX => XV/ZN fusion, 7FDX => XV/ZN2-ZN4 fusion, 5FDXor3FDX => XV/ZN5 fusion. AMD has been avoiding extremely big dies like they did in the 2000s and Orochi(315 mm2 8-core)/Viperfish(>356 mm2 10-core). With Zen 8-core being 210 mm2, etc. So, big MCM and small chips are well within AMD's profile.
//also, can someone with better Chinese than that of web translation software translate:
https://www.globalfoundries.com/cn/...-chong-dian-guan-zhu-ri-yi-zeng-chang-de-chai
"格芯中国区总经理白农评论道,“对我们中国的客户及生产合作伙伴而言这是一个积极的变化,因为我们强化了聚焦差异化的技术比如FDX (FD-SOI)及其他。这些差异化技术在中国市场的需求不断增加,对格芯而言一直相当重要。我们对FD-SOI以及与成都政府合作的承诺从未改变。"
As it's not in the english version:
https://www.globalfoundries.com/new...n-growing-demand-for-differentiated-offerings