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Re: What's the latest on 7xxx series from radeon?
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Jack of Diamonds
on 31/07/2011, 02:46:34 UTC
Bad news, interview of TSMC CEO confirmed 28nm chips will be delayed because AMD/Nvidia have canceled their major orders for this year.
28nm chips will only account for some 1% of their revenues by end of Q4 this year

http://seekingalpha.com/article/282679-taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-ceo-discusses-q2-2011-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=qanda

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You mentioned that 28-nanometer is taking a bit longer. Can you kind of describe if that is relate to just maturity of the process? Was it related to just customer not ramping the design that they have and you were previously, maybe previously expect them to ramp. And finally, how much of yourself do you expect to come with 28-nanometer for the second half or for the fourth quarter of this year?

Quote from: TSMC
The delay of 28-nanometer is not due to their quality issue, actually we have regular tape out and it is unplanned. The July ramping is mainly because of softening economy for our customers, so customers delayed a tape out to us. So therefore, the 28-nanometer revenue contribution by the end of fourth quarter this year will be roughly above 1% of our total wafer revenue.

Doesn't sound too promising for a 2011 launch