Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures
by ksec on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:02PM
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I am actually surprised it took this long for IBM to take action as it was the first thing when I saw GF announcing to stop developing 7nm. ( AMD was well prepared for Dual Fab at the time )
Their whole Z / POWER roadmap and release schedule was quite literally destroyed by GF. It now suffer a multi year delay, think Intel 14nm fiasco. Except IBM isn't Intel where they could squeeze and milk 14nm and their market. And funny enough IBM didn't went with TSMC and decided to use Samsung thinking they would have an easier time to port to their node due to similarities with GF. It turns out they might as well have gone with TSMC.
I think there are more to blame IBM for its management than GF pulling the plug.
Their whole Z / POWER roadmap and release schedule was quite literally destroyed by GF. It now suffer a multi year delay, think Intel 14nm fiasco. Except IBM isn't Intel where they could squeeze and milk 14nm and their market. And funny enough IBM didn't went with TSMC and decided to use Samsung thinking they would have an easier time to port to their node due to similarities with GF. It turns out they might as well have gone with TSMC.
I think there are more to blame IBM for its management than GF pulling the plug.