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CONFIRMED79% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per hexus.net[1]: "…xf Add to My Vault: GLOBALFOUNDRIES has announced that it plans to power straight through to 7nm Fin…"
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- Mar 30, 201890% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
GLOBALFOUNDRIES will jump directly from 14nm to 7nm
Tech expected to be ready for chip designers in H2 2017, production in early 2018. It will skip "the marginal performance and power benefits for the high cost of the 10nm process node" to hopefully become a leading differentiated 7nm chip fabricator ahead of major rivals.
- In September 2016 GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced it would skip 10nm and go directly from 14nm to 7nm FinFET production, citing marginal performance and power benefits for the high cost of 10nm[1][2]
- Test chips were already made at Fab 8; customer design starts were planned for the second half of 2017, with ramp to risk production in early 2018[1]
- 7nm was expected to give more than twice the logic density and a 30 percent performance boost over 16/14nm, reusing much of the 14nm tools and processes[1]
- By June 2017 it had opened 7nm design to customers, claiming about 40% more processing power; first products were planned for the first half of 2018 and volume production in the second half at Fab 8 in Saratoga County, N.Y., which is later than the early 2018 risk-production target[3]
- The first 7nm process uses optical lithography, with EUV support to follow[2][3]
- AMD CEO Lisa Su backed the move, while a WSJ analyst called it risky[1]
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- [1]90%hexus.net/tech/news/industry/96997-globalfoundries-will-jump-directly-14nm-7nmhexus.net· Posted Jun 21, 2017· Starts Mar 30, 2018 ✓· 0% of score
Happened as dated, per hexus.net: "…xf Add to My Vault: GLOBALFOUNDRIES has announced that it plans to power straight through to 7nm Fin…"
- [2]72%GlobalFoundries Confirmed Skipping 10nm, Jumping Directly to 7nm Processcustompcreview.com· Added Sep 14, 2026· 50% of score
CustomPCReview's article (dated 17 August 2016) quotes GlobalFoundries CEO Gary Patton confirming the skip to 7nm directly, predating the pin's stored 30 March 2018 date by about nineteen months as the original strategic announcement rather than a later confirmation.
- [3]85%GlobalFoundries Prepares Smaller Silicon After Skipping 10 Nanometerselectronicdesign.com· Added Sep 14, 2026· 50% of score
Electronic Design's article (dated 14 June 2017) reports GlobalFoundries bypassing 10nm to "attack 7nm head-on", with first 7nm products "planned for the first half of 2018" - this predates the pin's stored 30 March 2018 date by about nine months as an earlier strategy report.
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