Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures

Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures by ksec on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:50PM (#27509356)

>I find it interesting the article seems surprised AMD said nothing.

AMD doesn't use 10nm or 7nm from GF. So it doesn't bother AMD at all. The continuation of IOD was mostly because of price. Basically GF has no leverage on their 14nm and AMD are their only customer. GF either find a customer to use those capacity or turn it to something else other customer would need like their FD-SOI node.

I do wish AMD could move IOD away from GF though. They need some node optimisation for power efficiency.

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Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures by anfilt on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:28PM (#27510033)

I would have to find it again but a while ago I was looking at thermal images of AMDs chipslets and the IO die is pretty cool compared to the chiplets for the cores. There probably is some power savings for using a newer node for the IO dies, but it would minor compared to the cores.

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