GlobalFoundries charts road to 14 nm

From EETimes: In the latest look down its road map, GlobalFoundries claims it is shipping thousands of 32nm wafers a week, gearing up multiple 28nm offerings for 2012 and planning first customer tape outs using a planar 20nm process at the end of next year.

The company's recent partnership with Amkor Technology will help pave a path to new kinds of 3-D ICs, potentially at 28 and 20nm. In addition it has ordered an extreme ultraviolet lithography system to be installed late next year that may be tested out in a 20nm process and applied for work at 14nm.

GlobalFoundries will sketch out its road map at its annual Global Technology Conference here today.

"We are producing 65, 45, 32 and 28nm chips and shipping to more than one customer from our Dresden fab," said Ajit Manocha, interim chief executive of the company in an interview with EE Times. The company has 150 customers including its former owner Advanced Micro Devices and customers of Chartered Semiconductor it acquired in 2009.

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