AMD Cancels 28nm APUs, Starts From Scratch At TSMC

MrSeb writes "According to multiple independent sources, AMD has canned its 28nm Brazos-based Krishna and Wichita designs that were meant to replace Ontario and Zacate in the second half of 2012. The company will likely announce a new set of 28nm APUs at its Financial Analyst Day in February — and the new chips will be manufactured by TSMC, rather than its long-time partner GlobalFoundries. The implications and financial repercussions could be enormous. Moving 28nm APUs from GloFo to TSMC means scrapping the existing designs and laying out new parts using gate-last rather than gate-first manufacturing. AMD may try to mitigate the damage by doing a straightforward 28nm die shrink of existing Ontario/Zacate products, but that's unlikely to fend off increasing competition from Intel and ARM in the mobile space."

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Re:Take your time, let software catch up.

[gstoddart]

1995 called? So ext4 is from 1995? It has an online defrag utility, you know.

2009 called ... I'm running Vista. My Linux boxes are all now VMs ... I've no interest in running Linux as my primary box anymore.

But, I see you're living up to your nick.