News - GLOBALFOUNDRIES displays renewed hope with ARM SoC at 28nm

[HEXUS]

2.5GHz squeezed from the ARM Cortex-A9 design.

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[DDY]

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[streetster]

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fight!

[Scribe]

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bah

[scaryjim]

Creating one high-performance test chip on a new process isn't that big a deal - what we need to know is how many they *tried* to create in order to get a working one. One good chip out of an entire wafer isn't such a triumph...

[Scribe]

Creating one high-performance test chip on a new process isn't that big a deal - what we need to know is how many they *tried* to create in order to get a working one. One good chip out of an entire wafer isn't such a triumph...

True, though to squeeze 2.5GHz out of the chip does indicate that they were able to push the design quite hard, indicating a high quality of silicon and thus high yield at lower performance, though that's just trend and certainly not a rule so perhaps indeed yields could also be low, but I think less likely to be the case.