| JEMC said: GloFo has announced that their 7nm process in now available, with production available in the first half of 2018, and volume production in the second half of the same year: https://www.globalfoundries.com/news-events/press-releases/globalfoundries-track-deliver-leading-performance-7nm-finfet-technology That's when we'll see Zen+ and, if nothing else happens, Navi. |
Not a true 7nm process though.
Global Foundries is basically using 20nm for it's 14nm process. And they state their 7nm node is twice the scaling of their 14nm (Samsung) process. So we could be looking at something that is probably more like 14nm.
I would not be surprised if Intel will still hold a slight advantage with their refined 14nm process verses Global foundries "7nm" process, but we will need to wait and see.
The take away from that is, AMD has done an amazing job in bringing Ryzen to the market that is not only smaller, but uses less metal layers, but still keeping up the performance compared to Intel on an inferior process.
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