According to the latest report, it appears that GlobalFoundries will be switching directly from 14nm FinFET manufacturing process to 7nm one, skipping the 10nm manufacturing process.

Earlier reports suggest that chip manufacturers are having a lot of trouble with the upcoming 10nm manufacturing process so a newest report from SemiWiki.com does not come as a big surprise, suggesting that GlobalFoundries might be switching directly to 7nm one, that will offer optical and EUV (extreme ultra-violet) lithography.

GlobalFoundries is currently producing chips using 14nm FinFET manufacturing process and has great yields, which are behind AMD's latest Polaris GPUs and plans to produce AMD Zen CPUs on 14nm LPP (low-power plus) manufacturing process.

Globalfoundries have acquired equipment from IBM in terms of IBM 3300 EUV tool that should drive the 7nm EUV process.

The 7nm manufacturing process will be probably more difficult than the 10nm one but it could be a strategy that would eventually pay-off if all goes well for GlobalFoundries.



Source: via Techpowerup.com.