Intel vs GlobalFoundries at the leading edge

Re:Intel vs GlobalFoundries at the leading edge by bsder on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:16PM (#15954472)

> My impression of Intel's process compared to most foundries is that they tend to have higher drive currents at a given node leading to faster switching speeds but also more restrictive design rules leading to lower practical densities then the standard cell size would predict.

And better yields. Intel used to get outrageously better yields versus everybody else in the world.

> And overall the general slowdown in Moore's law means that Intel's technology lead has less of a performance/price ramification.

This. Memory fell off Moore's law many moons ago, and a modern processor is mostly a lot of memory.

There is a reason everybody is finally putting real effort into concurrency. And, it's not because it somehow magically got easier in the last 30 years ...

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Re:Intel vs GlobalFoundries at the leading edge by philjohn on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:25PM (#15954559)

Yep, but GF seems to have caught up with the licensed process they're on now, AMD have been seeing excellent yields with their Ryzen chips, to the point that quite a few people are finding their Ryzen 3 actually has 8 cores - I'm guessing the yields are so good that disabling the extra cores would cost more.

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