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."

Comments

Re:Take your time, let software catch up.

[Dunbal]

Don't worry, the next OS version should do it...

Re:Take your time, let software catch up.

[Anonymous Coward]

I salute you, mythical IT-worker who manages to get an overclocked computer work-approved.

You have to silently face East at 11am EST

[PopeRatzo]

Financial Analyst Day in February

Oh my god, there's less than 70 shopping days left!

It's tradition in my house that on Financial Analyst Day, or FAD as we call it, we make spiced wine and spike it with DMT, then sit around singing appropriate songs, such as "Money" by Pink Floyd, "Money (That's What I Want)" by the Beatles and "Gimme da Loot" by Biggie Smalls.

Then, sitting in a circle, we pass around a revolver with only one shell loaded and spinning the cylinder, we point at the person to the left and pull the trigger.

It's by far my favorite holiday.

Re:Take your time, let software catch up.

[bill_mcgonigle]

So far I have been totally unable to tax my current CPU past 40% utilization.

Oh, you should try Firefox sometime!

Re:Take your time, let software catch up.

[Kjella]

So while the guys that run gamer sites or live for benchmarks will scoff frankly the average user, which outnumbers them by a 100,000 to one (last number on hardcore PC gamers I saw put the number at 30 million)

Okay I heard Earth has an overpopulation problem, but did I doze off there for a while? Because I seem to have missed some recent developments...