Recently, we published leaked rumors about the characteristics of dual-GPU flagship AMD’s next generation – to Radeon HD 7990. But when should expect the first new series of accelerators on the market? It is reported that AMD has passed an important milestone in the development of a family of graphics accelerators Southern Islands. The new architecture, which is expected to be a market name Radeon HD 7000, reached in February under Tape out and ready for test production. Although AMD, according to the previous product release cycles, will be ready by the end of the summer to begin mass production, much will depend on the manufacturer.
According to the source, the first next-generation graphics chips from AMD were ready to test six weeks ago. If we consider the previous startup time, mass production of a series of new Radeon HD 7000 accelerators will be ready for launch by the end of July. This is the case, if all goes according to plan and timeframe for developing Northern Islands are consistent with Evergreen. But plans
AMD, as well, and NVIDIA, may be violated. According to rumors, TSMC faces considerable challenges in the development of 28-nm process technology standards HKMG-. Many well-remembered as the Taiwanese company slowly mastered the mass production in compliance with the 40-nm process technology standards, which eventually led to the abandonment of the development of 32-nm process.
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As expected, GlobalFoundries starts producing for AMD 28-nanometer chips, but apparently, the company developed the 28-nm process in conjunction with TSMC. In general, the present situation is such that time-Radeon HD 7000 no longer depends on AMD, and from chip manufacturers.
Thus, the design and the first products reach the stage of readiness in the third quarter of the year. Hopefully, the 28-nm process technology standards at this time will be sufficient for the development of mass production. In the last quarter of this year, AMD will present the first 28-nm mobile boosters and, hopefully, the first desktop card will be released sooner.
exact details on the architecture of Southern Islands there, but most likely is that AMD will not make any drastic changes, it is only recently in the Cayman chip company turned to the design of stream processors VLIW4. It seems that it will build the same Series and Radeon HD 7000, which has traditionally become more powerful, more efficient and optimized.
