http://www.globalfoundries.com/technology-solutions/leading-edge-technologies/14nm-collaborationOverview
Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES have entered into a strategic collaboration to deliver an unprecedented global capacity footprint for 14nm FinFET process technology.
Business Model
Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES are fundamentally changing the foundry ecosystem supply chain by offering customers the ability to manufacture a single GDS II design at multiple manufacturing facilities. Both companies have prior experience in bringing up matched process technologies. Through a proven level of fab synchronization never previously achieved outside of a single company, Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES will use a coordinated copy-smart approach involving materials, process recipes, integration and tools. The company will also run fab-sync test chips on a regular basis to ensure that the fabs are the 14nm FinFET process exactly the same.
Samsung, Glofo Roll 14nm Process
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1321974SAN JOSE, Calif. — Samsung expects to be in production late this year with a 14 nm FinFET process it has developed. GlobalFoundries has licensed the process and will have it in production early next year.
The news puts heat on TSMC, the world's largest chip foundry. The two competitors are just months behind its schedule for a similar 16 nm FinFET process. Missing from the race is IBM, a former partner in the Common Platform with GlobalFoundries and Samsung. It is now reportedly looking to sell off at least part of its semiconductor group.
Samsung qualified its 14 nm process in February and has multiple customer chips in production in hopes of volume shipments by the end of the year. GlobalFoundries will qualify the process this year and provide volume production in early 2015.
The initial 14 LPE process targets early time-to-market products, delivering 20% more performance, 35% less power, and 15% less area than a planar 20 nm process. The two companies plan a follow-up LPP process that will sport 15% better performance than LPE and an undetermined advantage in power.
Samsung ♥ GLOBALFOUNDRIES
https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/3356-samsung-heart-globalfoundries.htmlSeoul, Korea and Santa Clara, Calif. April 17, 2014 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced a new strategic collaboration to deliver global capacity for 14 nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology. For the first time, the industry’s most advanced 14nm FinFET technology will be available at both Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES, giving customers the assurance of supply that can only come from true design compatibility at multiple sources across the globe…
“This unprecedented collaboration will result in a global capacity footprint for 14nm FinFET technology that provides AMD with enhanced capabilities to bring our innovative IP into silicon on leading-edge technologies,” said Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of Global Business Units at AMD. “The work that GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung are doing together will help AMD deliver our next generation of groundbreaking products with new levels of processing and graphics capabilities to devices ranging from low-power mobile devices, to next-generation dense servers to high-performance embedded solutions.”
https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/files/NewsRelease4-17-2014.pdf