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Paistab, et "14nm-võidujooksule" antakse nüüd kõvasti hoogu juurde.
Samsung and GlobalFoundries buddy up for 14nm, while IBM heads for the exit

Last week, Samsung and GlobalFoundries announced that they would partner together to deploy Samsung’s 14nm technology at all GF facilities. The deal is unprecedented in modern foundry history, with GF essentially acknowledging the two companies will use a “copy-smart” approach that involves synchronizing materials, process recipes, and tools. That’s not quite the level of duplication that Intel’s “copy exactly” approach uses, but it should still allow designs built at one foundry to ramp up smoothly at another.

The elephant in the room, however, is the company that wasn’t mentioned — IBM. Ever since GlobalFoundries was spun off from AMD in 2009, Samsung, IBM, and GF have maintained what they called the “Common Platform.” Common Platform was an agreement on broad technology standards that would be deployed across all three companies. It was never entirely clear which technologies were governed by CP rules and which were independently developed, but the goal was to create an infrastructure that allowed for easy design porting across all three corporations.

Now, Samsung and GF are getting married at the 14nm node and IBM is nowhere to be seen. We’ve previously reported that the company is exploring a complete exit from the semiconductor business; news since then has suggested that GlobalFoundries is actually the leading contender to acquire IBM’s manufacturing capabilities. What that means for long-term R&D is unclear — while IBM manufactured very low chip volumes, it’s continued to do a great deal of leading-edge R&D.

Edasi lingil:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/181136-samsung-and-globalfoundries-buddy-up-for-14nm-while-ibm-heads-for-the-exit