TSMC gearing up for 28nm production in 2011 - Digitimes

[Olivon]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has been adjusting its 28nm equipment to a manufacturing readiness maturity level of over 90%, and will start volume production using 28nm process as soon as possible in 2011, according to the company.

TSMC has made significant progress in upward adjusting the manufacturing readiness of 28nm equipment at its Fab 12 in the Hsinchu Science Park HSP), with the maturity level hiked from less than 50% in the fourth quarter of 2009 to more than 90% currently, the company indicated. The more advanced the manufacturing processes, the lower the initial manufacturing readiness of equipment and more efforts needed for adjustments, TSMC said, adding 90nm equipment, for example, has an initial maturity level of nearly 100% and almost does not need any adjustment, TSMC explained.

TSMC has many clients for its 28nm process, including Xilinx, Altera, Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm, and has attained tape-out for 71 IC products. The 28nm production capacity will be fully utilized by the end of 2011, TSMC noted.

In addition to 28nm, TSMC has urged its suppliers of equipment and materials to speed up R&D for 20nm process.

Digitimes

[zalbard]

As soon as possible, this means Q1? I do not know any products coming so soon... So the end of Q1 - Q2, perhaps?

[slaveondope]

Cayman is 28nm

[Manicdan]

im looking forward to this
considering i plan on skipping 40nm, the sooner 28nm comes out the better. cant wait for caymen like perf for just 100W and maybe sub 200$

[freeloader]

Let's just hope their 28nm roll out goes better than 40nm did for them.

[Nintendork]

We need a 28nm HD4770-like legend.

[Manicdan]

We need a 28nm HD4770-like legend.

yes the "7770 Se7en" edition would be awesome

[Nikolasz]

Cayman is 28nm

28 Yea why not, then again thats not 22 micron no need to get licence

[VIP3R]

I would like to wait for this generation to be my next card although the 8800gt im using is getting a little tired.

[saaya]

wants to start asap... well who doesnt want to launch his latest product asap? :P
i think they will start mp in summer, i doubt theyll kick it off in q1...

[Nikolasz]

wants to start asap... well who doesnt want to launch his latest product asap? :P
i think they will start mp in summer, i doubt theyll kick it off in q1...

agree

[Sn0wm@n]

Cayman is 28nm

and where did you hear that again??

28 Yea why not, then again thats not 22 micron no need to get licence

huh ????

[slaveondope]

and where did you hear that again??

From the voices in my head

They said Cayman was delayed 2 weeks and no one was sure why, report comes out TSMC is producing 28nm in 2011.
Voice's conclude that Dec. 13th is close enough to 2011 and 2 weeks is enough time to stamp out some 28nm gpu's and throw out that old 40nm crap.

Conclusion:

Cayman is 28nm



I, well "we" can speculate too you see

[SpuTnicK]

Altera has announced that it will also utilize low-power process technology from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for its low-cost and midrange 28nm FPGA chips in order to provide customers a broad selection.

The additional 28nm FPGA families will be announced in 2011, Altera said. The company announced in April 2010 that its high-end 28nm Stratix V FPGAs will be manufactured on TSMC's 28nm high-performance (28HP) process, with sample shipments slated to begin in the first quarter of 2011.

Digitimes

[Sn0wm@n]

From the voices in my head

They said Cayman was delayed 2 weeks and no one was sure why, report comes out TSMC is producing 28nm in 2011.
Voice's conclude that Dec. 13th is close enough to 2011 and 2 weeks is enough time to stamp out some 28nm gpu's and throw out that old 40nm crap.

Conclusion:

Cayman is 28nm



I, well "we" can speculate too you see

so your voices say 2010 .. but tsmc says 2011 ... i wonder whos right

[kuroikenshi]

so your voices say 2010 .. but tsmc says 2011 ... i wonder whos right

the one using capital letters first

[Pantsu]

Q2 is probably the earliest given 6 months from tapeout. The jump from 40nm to 28nm is going to be huge though, we're going to see some nice performance improvements. If all goes well we'll see a 7770 or something like that before summer. On the other hand the pipe cleaner isn't necessarily a cheap card to manufacture if it has problems, like the 4770. That's why AMD never produced a lot of them. Let's just hope TSMC won't drop the ball on this one too.

[Tomasis]

7770 is magical number must have it for htpc