Fudo reports that the deal between AMD and Intel makes AMD's x86 royalty free.
Since this is a two way street, AMD will also give some patents to Intel and make the competition less exciting. Nehalem looks much like AMD’s Barcelona and AMD will concentrate on catching up with Intel and bringing innovations that should help the company in 2011 to introduce some cool products such as Fusion as well as its Bulldozer savior core.
Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:23
Bulldozer, Bobcat, Fusion, Llano News
Written by Chris Tom
Friday, 13 November 2009 14:23
Fudo has several news items on AMD's Bulldozer, Bobcat, Fusion, and Llano.
Fudzilla reports that TSMC yields at 40nm are still just 50%.
Our sources are quoting numbers close to 50 percent, and in the semiconductor manufacturing business, this would be considered as extremely bad for a mature manufacturing process.
Globalfoundries and AMD usually transition from e.g. 65nm to 45nm in a matter of months and yields would have to be much better to make financial sense.
Chartered Purchase Could Bring 150 Clients To Globalfoundries
Written by Chris Tom
Monday, 09 November 2009 13:42
Fudo reports that Chartered Semiconductor should be purchased by Globafoundries which would bring 150 new customers to the fold.
Chartered has voted in favor of the Globalfoundries takeover (note: ex-AMD fabs) as it can keep up with the demands of super high-performance customers like AMD on a CPU side and Nvidia and ATI on the GPU side. On the other hand, Chartered might be doing some legacy technologies.
Since many of our readers know that server cores and desktop cores derive from the same wafer, it is easy for us to explain that the image below of an Istanbul wafer also carries many die that will eventually be manufactured into Thuban six-core AMD desktop CPUs with 6MB L3 cache and support for DDR3-1333 memory.
