Amd will use a 12nm lp finfet process for the second generation of ryzen and vega

AMD continues to work hard to offer users the best possible graphics and processor technology, Sunnyvale's have given new details on their new generation of Ryzen processors and Vega graphics cards that will arrive under a manufacturing process at 12nm LP FinFET.

AMD Ryzen and Vega will be manufactured on 12nm LP

Currently both Ryzen processors and AMD graphics cards are manufactured using Global Foundries' 14nm FinFET process, a manufacturing technology that has performed very well on Ryzen CPUs but remains behind the competition and does not allow reach clock frequencies as high as Intel Core processors.

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Therefore, both Ryzen processors and Radeon RX Vega graphics cards will use a more advanced 12nm LP FinFET process that will offer a performance improvement of 10%, to which may be added some optimizations of the architecture of the products. The first wafers will begin mass production in the last quarter of this year.

AMD and Global Foundries are not satisfied with this, so they prepare another transition at 7 nm for 2018 and at 7 nm + for 2019. A very ambitious plan if we consider that Intel does not yet have a process at 10 nm mature enough to manufacture its CPUs, which has caused a new delay of Cannon Lake until the end of 2018.

As for the Radeon RX Vega 12nm LP FinFET, these will have to contend with the Nvidia Volta graphics cards which will be manufactured by TSMC also under a 12nm FinFET process.

Source: wccftech