| fatslob-:O said: My purpose is to focus on transistor/cost ...
That will change very soon since almost every foundry can offer 28nm such as Global Foundries, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, UMC, and TSMC! Another reason why the chip makers wouldn't want to transition is because the costs of designing a low margin part isn't worth it ... |
Well, technically, the design is already "done" with AMD's 28nm Oland core, unfortunatly it still doesn't get as cheap as the 40nm Cedar and Caicos Chips, but that will change eventually... A possible respin with the removal of the GDDR5 memory controller might be a possibility? Then again, Cedar and Caicos has DDR2, DDR3 and GDDR5 controllers, so it can't be that expensive transister wise.
The Xbox One though... Has a relatively monolothic 5~ Billion transister chip, they would probably save cash by doing process shrinks aggressively.
Would be a completely different story if the Chip was only 200~ million transisters.
AMD tends to only shop at Global Foundries and TSMC. - Should be interesting to see the ramifications of Apple buying up capacity from TSMC in regards to nVidia's and AMD's 20nm GPU lines.
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