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TSMC to fab low-cost bulk silicon microprocessor for AMD |
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Nov 26, 2007 at 03:39 PM |
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 According to Daniel A. Berenbaum, a financial analyst at Caris & Company, TSMC will start production of several ‘non-mainstream’ IC devices, including a low-cost Bulk-silicon microprocessor for AMD starting sometime in the first-half of 2008, Berenbaum noted in a client report after a recent visit to Taiwan.
Berenbaum also noted that TSMC had only done ‘basic’ R&D with SOI wafers using the 90nm node as a reference point and believes there is little evidence to suggest TSMC will soon produce leading-edge SOI CPUs for AMD.
However, TSMC is also planning the fabrication of an integrated CPU/GPU on Bulk silicon for AMD also in the first half of 2008, Berenbaum said.
He noted that the new collaboration with TSMC actually falls short of the touted ‘fab-lite’ business model AMD executives have touted and views the sale of AMD fabs such as Fab 38 in Dresden, Germany as ‘unlikely.’
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