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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

That's a bummer!

Seriously, I can understand that evry nod transition gets harder and harder, but TSMC has been horrible wrong in the last jumps. When they went from 55 to 40 there were troubles, the jump to 32 was so wrong that they simply skipped it altogether and went to 28, which also had is troubles and delays, and now going to 20nm it's the same story yet again!

The least they could have learned is to foresee this kind of unexpected problems and don't announce/sell it until it's f*cking ready!

 

They really have no one else to turn to.

Intel would probably cost a fortune... Plus Intel has restricted it's fabs to themselves and a *tiny* select few of ARM companies (I.E Altera, who get 64bit ARM chips.)

Altera Corp

Altera Corp

Global Foundries is still stuck in 32nm land last I checked.

Then there is Samsung...
However shifting from one foundry to another isn't exactly "easy" as you have different power characteristics and other logistical issues to contend with, even at the same node, shifting to a new node usually takes time, thus making a shift to another company simply unfeasible this when left this late in the game.

On the flip side, 28nm is very mature with high yields, so it should be interesting to see how AMD and nVidia handle being stuck on the same node for 3 years and how they go about increasing transister counts.

It's pretty ironic though how TSMC said they were better at fabrication than Intel when Intel is moving to 14nm and TSMC struggles with it's 20nm.

Question, what'cha gonna' do about that ole' Radeon 5850? doing the upgrade on this next lot of rebadged cards?

I'm not sugesting that they should move to another manufacturer, I'm just saying that TSMC should be more serious and professional and have the things done when they claim they will be.

As for my 5850, I'm really considering getting a new card now as things will go for the worst once the summer ends (real life problems and all that). And I'm currently leaning towards an R9 290, obviously with an aftermarket cooler.