AMD has three new desktop 14nm parts in 2016
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After 28/32nm comes 14nm Zen line

AMD has an update for investors and this information was supposed to get to them at the financial conference call scheduled for May. It got out a bit earlier than that and gave us some insight into AMD's plans for 2016.

First Zen Chips will be Quad Core
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What is the sound of four cores clapping?

Some of AMD's first Zen based CPUs and APUs will be quad-core.

Globalfoundries 14nm process has volume production levels
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Licenced by Samsung

Globalfoundries is now getting volume production from the 14nm FinFET technology it licensed from Samsung.

New leaked AMD Zen slide
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High performance monster

The block diagram of the new AMD Zen core has found its way onto the Planet 3 news group.

MediaTek uses 20nm to make 10 cores
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For smartphones

While everyone is rushing to 10nm process technology for smartphones, fabless chipmaker MediaTek is about to create a 10 core SoC using TSMC's 20nm process tech.