Quote Originally Posted by savantu View Post
AMD's 1st iteration of the 45nm process is going to be low-k SOI.I'd say there is 90% chances that Swift will come on SOI instead of High-k/metal gate.
How much of a drop in replacement would metal gates be?
I assume new masks would be needed for the relevant layers but would the logic layout require a rework (ignoring any efforts at optimisations)?