GlobalFoundries Confirm that Manufacturing AMD's 'Zen' Will be on Schedule

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Responding to rumors that AMD will contract TSMC instead of GlobalFoundries to manufacture AMD's next generation 'Zen' processor. Jason Gorss, Senior Manager, Corporate and Technology Communications at Globalfoundries has confirmed that they will manufacture AMD's 'Zen' on time and that their 14nm FinFET manufacturing process is actually ahead of schedule stating:

"Our 14nm FinFET ramp is exceeding plan with best-in-class yield and defect density. The early-access version of the technology (14LPE) was qualified in January and is well on its way to volume production, meeting yield targets on lead customer products. The performance-enhanced version of the technology (14LPP) is set for qualification in the second half of 2015, with the volume ramp beginning in early 2016. Prototyping on test vehicles has demonstrated excellent logic and SRAM yields and performance at near 100% of target."

In the past GlobalFoundries haven't had a good track record in manufacturing processors for AMD so it's great news that GloFo have 'Zen' on track.

Source: WCCFtech