Amd migrates 7nm chip manufacturing from globalfoundries to tsmc

AMD's 7nm process change will now be entirely the responsibility of TSMC, rather than AMD's traditional factory, GlobalFoundries.

AMD Ensures Migration to TSMC Will Not Affect Your Roadmap

In an article, AMD technical director Mark Papermaster said there will be no change to the company's product roadmap. AMD has already made several 7nm products at TSMC, including the 7nm Vega chip, scheduled for release in 2018, and the first 7nm EPYC chip, scheduled for release in 2019. Both the Zen 2 and Next-generation Navi GPUs will also be manufactured at 7nm with this manufacturer.

"Our work with TSMC on its 7nm node has gone very well and we have seen excellent results, " Papermaster wrote. The switch between GlobalFoundries and TSMC, Papermaster said, was described as part of the company's "flexible production strategy".

According to Pat Moorhead, director of Moor Insights, AMD's existing 7nm designs were already in the TSMC process. "I don't think AMD had any relevant 7nm designs at GlobalFoundries, " he tweeted. So it seems that this is not something that has come up in a hurry, but that the migration of GlobalFoundries to TSMC had been taking place for a while.

GloblaFoundries announced that the company is moving away from cutting-edge chip production, seemingly ceding this ground to TSMC, Samsung, and other chipmakers willing to aggressively invest in major manufacturing lines. Instead, AMD will keep its existing and older Ryzen, Radeon and Epyc lines at 14 and 12nm at GlobalFoundries.

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