Fudo reports that Global Foundries will be pushing out their 10nm process sometime in 2015.

By the end of the year Globalfoundries plans to start churning out 20nm LPM parts for wired applications and networking. In 2014 we should see the first hybrid 14nm XM (extreme mobility) parts, which combine 14nm FinFET transistors and 20nm back-end-of-line (BEOL). A 10nm hybrid process, utilizing 10nm FinFET with 14nm BEOL, is planned for 2015.

In what reads like a bad April fools joke Semiaccurate relays reports that Intel's upcoming Broadwell CPU will not be socketed.  Instead like the failure of current gen consoles it wil be a BGA soldered directly to the board.  Get ready for the Blue Light of Death when those decide to lose connection with the board. 

Will Intel cut out the mobo makers entirely and just do everything themselves? Grabbing more of the pie seems to be their forte of late, but cutting out everyone but the physical assembly guys seems to be a bit of a stretch in the short term. SemiAccurate suspects that this decision has not been made, but expect Intel to gut the mobo makers influence one way or the other, they are currently seen by Santa Clara as having too much power. This is not going to be pretty no matter how it ends up.

There is only one solution to this, a healthy AMD. Do you want your PC to become a complete throwaway item? Do you want to have to upgrade your motherboard to upgrade your CPU? That is what Intel wants. Intel wants you to have a piece of crap Xbox or Playstation. And you are going to like it too.

Real World Tech has details about Intel's upcoming Haswell CPU architecture.

The Haswell family features a new CPU core, new graphics and substantial changes the platform in terms of memory and power delivery and power management. All of these areas are significant from a technical and economic perspective and interact in various ways. However, the Haswell family represents a menu of options that are available for SoCs tailored to certain markets. Not every product requires graphics (e.g. servers), nor is a new power architecture desirable for cost optimized products (e.g. desktops). Architects will pick and choose from the menu of options, based on a variety of technical and business factors.

There a number of articles reacting to AMD's ARM plans from Bloomberg, Wired, and ZDNet.

It took a while, but on Monday, AMD delivered a serious response to Heiliger. The company announced plans to ship new chips and servers based on the same low-power ARM processor designs that have become popular on mobile phones. AMD has already assembled an engineering team to design the chips, and after some testing next year, the company will ship the first ones in 2014, says Lisa Su, the general manager of AMD’s global business units.

Tech Report has confirmed that AMD's ARM core will be licensed, and will not be their own design.  This does not mean AMD will work on their own design in the meantime as Nvidia has been doing.

AMD's talk of bringing its expertise with 64-bit CPUs to the ARM ecosystem might have led you to think that it had taken the second path, licensing the ISA, but that's not the case. Instead, AMD is licensing a 64-bit CPU core from ARM and building it into a chip—which AMD calls an SoC, or system-on-a-chip—that's compatible with the server-oriented Freedom Fabric interconnect AMD acquired when it purchased SeaMicro. This fabric interconnect will most likely be incorporated into the silicon along with the ARM cores.