AMD's x86 Nolan APU will be Fabricated on the 28nm Process not 20nm

I had the opportunity to talk to an Industry Insider with knowledge of AMD'south supply concatenation and we discussed quite a lot of interesting topics. Naturally I will not be revealing his identity or company for obvious reasons. Nosotros covered alot of AMD's roadmap possibilities, some of which will be dissimilar from what other publications (and fifty-fifty nosotros ) have reported on occasion. While the data at the time of revelation is correct, continue in mind that there is nothing stopping AMD from changing their roadmaps in the future as they take done countless times already. I have split the talk into four pieces. This is the first.

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AMD's Nolan APU is actually on 28nm - Industry Insider

Lets start with Nolan APU. Nolan is AMD's x86 projection and were mentioned equally 20nm (on official slides) yet, our source says that is not actually truthful. According to him Nolan APU is on the 28nm process while Amur will actually cease existence on a lower node (20nm). That is an extremely interesting revelation to say the least. He went into further specifics near Nolan APU as well, that it will only be a 'mild' update to the Beema/Mullins platform and be FP4 BGA packaged (same every bit Carrizo). He further went on to country that if AMD employed a smaller-than-28nm node it volition most probably exist used for Amur or the successor to Amur. To summarize, it would appear that Nolan stays at 28nm while Amur shifts to a lower process node in all likelihood.

Nolan and Amur is AMD's special platform - an attempt to suspension into the low ability mobility market and compete confronting Intel'due south Scarlet Trail. While switching to 20nm would have given AMD a much needed reward, from the looks of information technology, AMD will be staying with 28nm with this detail SKU. Nolan should exist based on the Puma+ architecture and will exist virtually identical to its ARM analogue apart from the fact that information technology is x86 and not ARM. Both have a release time stamp of Q3 2022.  Amur is said to support both Android and Linux while Nolan will support both Android and Windows.

This likewise raises questions on which process AMD might end up utilizing, for a low power die, the 28nm lithographic processes of both TSMC and GloFo volition suffice, and there would be negligible difference between the two anyways. And thats not all, our source also mentioned that AMD will stick to 28nm process for nigh of its offerings throughout 2022 and maybe even 2022 - something that comes as a considerable surprise to us. Stay tuned for the remaining writeups of our discussion on AMD (and likewise Intel), they will be up soon.

Source: https://wccftech.com/amds-x86-nolan-apu-fabricated-28nm-process-20nm/

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