Quote Originally Posted by Kuroimaho View Post
TSMC drops 32nm in favor of 28nm
Still a rumour... plus they showd things at 32nm and saying it's on track so I personally don't believe it but as theres obv' some information out there i'll happily eat my words if wrong


Quote Originally Posted by Florinmocanu View Post
well, RV 870 at 330mm2 is a medium sized gpu, i would say over 400mm and more is where the real fun/problems begin, and at over 500 mm, fermi is big, one of the biggest ever made.
ok fair point :P i'm just used to small-er chips from the last couple series I guess

but I agree that going monolithic although having advantages has a pretty heft(huge) downside, I think ati's approach has been much better :/ ok so this round their card was power hungry but as it was only a stop gap until the new arch we cant really complain too much....

I think fermi will show its actual power on the 32/28nm node's (w/e they choose to go with) I just hope it's sooner then later.... im not sure how far tsmc has got.. but we know GF seems to have some pretty complicated wafer's on the go that DON'T look like tests so they are obviously pretty easily on track.

TSMC doesn't seem as vocal.... apart from they showed that 32nm wafer(but I don't know much about it as i havent seen pics of it) but i hope it's pretty advanced/more advanced then GF's 28nm tech as nvidia could be helped quite a bit if they can get the shrink out around the ATI launch (as long as that isn't plagued as much as nvidia's one is/was)