Disputing news that came out earlier this week about the 40nm yields from TSMC dropping from 60% to 40%, claiming that the yields have not been effected.
AMD, Nvidia and others are impacted. In response to the reports, TSMC officials said: ”The 40-nm yield didn’t drop as reported. As a matter of fact, yield on the 40-nm process remained flat. TSMC is confident that the 40-nm yield will improve at the beginning of next year.”
Of course, 60% still isn’t a great yield.
via EETimes.com – TSMC: 40-nm yields will improve.
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Softpedia has an interview with Mr John Swinimer, Public Relations Manager at AMD, who revealed their new 40nm process graphics boards and upcoming works on integrated CPU’s with AMD.
Mr. John Swinimer has also unveiled the fact that AMD is currently working on CPUs with integrated graphics, or APUs (Accelerated Processing Units), and that we should be able to see the first such product released in 2011. At the same time, we should also see in the near future some action in the area of ultra-portable mobile devices that come with a 10-inch diagonal screen size. Read below to see what AMD intends to do in this regard.
via Exclusive: AMD to Soon Release 40nm Desktop Graphics Cards – The company intends to be the first in the 32nm area as well – Softpedia.
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