AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[Chumbucket843]

I'm not that optimist that AMD will break 400 mm^2 for their graphic chip size anytime in the near future, ESPECIALLY using this buggered 40 nm process by TSMC, but we'll see.

i'm getting sick of repeating myself. there is nothing flawed about tsmc's 40nm process.

[god_43]

i'm getting sick of repeating myself. there is nothing flawed about tsmc's 40nm process.

wasn't it a problem with the equipment? the process itself is/was sound right?

[Sn0wm@n]

wasn't it a problem with the equipment? the process itself is/was sound right?

the problem itself was with the transistors at the begining and then maybe equipment ... but overtime these problems get fixed and amd has proven over time to have competent engineer who can figure out ways to improve a product based on the same node .. lower power consumption etc... so i really cant see a problem with amd getting more out of 40nm 1 year later

That as well but Crysis 1 mainly. Mods need love <3

LOL those mods do need alot of gpu love

[Chumbucket843]

wasn't it a problem with the equipment? the process itself is/was sound right?

there were rumors of electromigration issues in the vias (via defects are actually fairly common.) but that was even before evergreen launched. this is the only rumor i heard and defect density has been good so yields are not an issue as long as the chip is designed well.

40nm has gotten a bad rep mostly because of the blame game. they did undershoot capacity by a lot but that happens a lot and it would have been extremely risky to invest more into 40nm with the way the economy was doing. almost every analyst had a gloomy forecast for the IC market so they played it safe.