14 DAY TRIAL // Globalfoundries is forced yet again to dismiss allegations regarding delays encountered with their 32nm SOI manufacturing process after a financial analyst started spreading such rumors following Dirk Meyer's resignation as company's CEO.
It seems like Globalfoundries can't get a break from this sort of news as the company has been dismissing such claims for about a year now.
"We have absolutely made no changes to our 32nm guidance. We are making good progress and our ramp is on track support AMD's plans to ship product to customers 1H 2011," said Jon Carvill, vice president of global communications at Globalfoundries in regards to these latest allegations.
On Tuesday, an analyst with the Auriga investment firm implied in a note to their clients that further delays with GloFlo's 32nm SOI production are to be expected, stating that: “Consensus is clearly negative on AMD’s ability to execute, but our work (and Mr. Meyer’s resignation) suggests these concerns might even be worse than many fear.
With the 32nm ramp at GlobalFoundries delayed, and the ability to value-price Fusion products in some doubt, we see no reason to move off our negative bias."
However, as Xbit Labs reports, there isn't anything wrong with the company's new manufacturing process and AMD's 32nm chip roadmap remains on track.
The Sunnyvale-based company will use this new manufacturing node for building their upcoming Bulldozer and Llano processors.
Just as before, the first Bulldozer processors are expected to ship sometime during Q2 2011 (April most likely), server chips following to be released in the third quarter of this year.
Code-named Zambezi, the CPUs will feature an entirely new architecture design and will be compatible with AM3+ motherboards.
The third quarter of 2011 will see the launch of the Llano desktop APUs that pack two or more K10 cores together with a DirectX 11 compatible GPU on the same silicon die.