AMD Partner Globalfoundries Begins 12nm FD-SOI Rollout-Product Tape Out Expected In 2019

by Khalid Moammer, Sept. 10, 2016 – 

Globalfoundries, the world's second largest pure play foundry, announced Thursday the rollout of its next generation 12nm FD-SOI process technology. The ex AMD manufacturing arm and longtime partner stated that it expects product tape outs in two years time.

The 12nm fully depleted silicon on insulator process technology dubbed 12FDX is only the second of its kind and the direct successor to Globalfoundries' 22FDX technology. 12FDX promises to deliver 10nm FinFET performance with better power consumption and lower cost than 16nm FinFET. Furthermore, it achieves that while maintaining great versatility. The node is compatible with radio frequency, analog, embedded memory, and advanced logic circuits.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES' new 12FDX technology is built on a 12nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) platform, enabling the performance of 10nm FinFET with better power consumption and lower cost than 16nm FinFET. The platform offers a full node of scaling benefit, delivering a 15 percent performance boost over today's FinFET technologies and as much as 50 percent lower power consumption. Click here to read more...

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