AMD Readies 14 nm FinFET GPUs in 2016

[HumanSmoke]

So you're going to miss the point entirely and pick at straws?

Nope. Just correcting a couple of erroneous facts. While I agree with what you're saying as a whole, jamming in a few false claims shouldn't be hand waved away when it is just as easy to use true examples.

Its completely expected for AMD to be first with HBM

Since AMD co-developed the standard with SK Hynix, and were all but cited by Hynix as the launch customer, shouldn't that have been expected?

 

[Casecutter]

Has there been any news on 16nm yields at TSMC? Last I heard (mid-April) it was said as they looked to be approaching mature levels.

I take that as saying they are able to succeed overall wafer methodologies, multi-patterning flows, and dynamic power density, but not necessarily able to provide any consistency or numbers of decent chips from the process (yield). Knowing the added mask steps (approx. 14 additional) so the understanding is from a wafer start-package-testing, to chip delivery FinFET would take several more weeks. (28nm~2.5mo’s vs. FinFET ~3mo’s).

 

[$ReaPeR$]

this is exciting

 

[Aquinus]

this is exciting

Hardly. It will be exciting when we get closer to a release date. Otherwise all I see is a massive amount of PR work.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Hardly. It will be exciting when we get closer to a release date. Otherwise all I see is a massive amount of PR work.

Well with such an attitude why even read this article?
Hell 90% of these Technews sites is brought out announcement aka PR work

 

[$ReaPeR$]

Well with such an attitude why even read this article?
Hell 90% of these Technews sites is brought out announcement aka PR work

thanks mate