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TSMC and AMD at 7nm

Daniel Nenni

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On the AMD Q1 2018 call Lisa Su confirmed that the new GPU products are 7nm and manufactured at TSMC. She did not say however where the 7nm Ryzen would be manufactured. Does anybody know? None of the analysts asked unfortunately.

I would expect GF 7nm but I don't really know. TSMC really is going to have a big 7nm year next year with the addition of Qualcomm and AMD to the rest of the TSMC parade of customers, absolutely.

Lisa T. Su - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
We have a 7-nanometer GPU based on Vega that we'll sample later this year. We have a 7-nanometer server CPU that we'll sample later this year. And then, obviously, we have a number of products that are planned for 2019 as well. So it's a very, very busy product season for us. But we're pleased with the sort of the execution on the product roadmap.


Lisa T. Su - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
So our foundry strategy is to use both TSMC and GLOBALFOUNDRIES on the first 7-nanometer product. We are using TSMC for that product (GPU) and we have a very strong relationship with them. And so, we do see a good momentum on it from what we see, and I'm not concerned about capacity.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Q1 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript | Seeking Alpha
 
It has to be Globalfoundries, otherwise they wouldn't have enough volume to satisfy the wafer agreement.
 
On the AMD Q1 2018 call Lisa Su confirmed that the new GPU products are 7nm and manufactured at TSMC. She did not say however where the 7nm Ryzen would be manufactured. Does anybody know? None of the analysts asked unfortunately.

I would expect GF 7nm but I don't really know. TSMC really is going to have a big 7nm year next year with the addition of Qualcomm and AMD to the rest of the TSMC parade of customers, absolutely.

Lisa T. Su - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
We have a 7-nanometer GPU based on Vega that we'll sample later this year. We have a 7-nanometer server CPU that we'll sample later this year. And then, obviously, we have a number of products that are planned for 2019 as well. So it's a very, very busy product season for us. But we're pleased with the sort of the execution on the product roadmap.


Lisa T. Su - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
So our foundry strategy is to use both TSMC and GLOBALFOUNDRIES on the first 7-nanometer product. We are using TSMC for that product (GPU) and we have a very strong relationship with them. And so, we do see a good momentum on it from what we see, and I'm not concerned about capacity.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Q1 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript | Seeking Alpha

Daniel
I think AMD is going with Vega 7nm and Navi at TSMC while Zen 2 based products are likely to be at GF. btw this is just a guess. I am going by Gary Patton's interview with anandtech recently where he says they have a couple of key customers who will be ramping 7nm products in H1 2019. I would say AMD is definitely the lead customer at GF 7LP with Zen 2 based server CPUs shipping first by mid -2019.

The Future of Silicon: An Exclusive Interview with Dr. Gary Patton, CTO of GlobalFoundries
 
Daniel
I think AMD is going with Vega 7nm and Navi at TSMC while Zen 2 based products are likely to be at GF. btw this is just a guess. I am going by Gary Patton's interview with anandtech recently where he says they have a couple of key customers who will be ramping 7nm products in H1 2019. I would say AMD is definitely the lead customer at GF 7LP with Zen 2 based server CPUs shipping first by mid -2019.

The Future of Silicon: An Exclusive Interview with Dr. Gary Patton, CTO of GlobalFoundries


I have checked around and I agree. This will be the first time AMD has a customized process since they went fabless. The first GF 7nm will be performance optimized based on the Zen 2. Zen 1 was on the GF 14nm process licensed by Samsung.

Intel could have serious competition here in 2019....
 
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