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According to foreign media reports, south Korean tech news site etnews said on Tuesday that chipmaker AMD has with samsung electronics has used the latter 14 nm FinFET process production of the next generation of high performance chip to reach an agreement. Samsung will start from the second quarter of 2016 for the next generation of AMD production GPU chip, then in later for Zen architecture CPU support production.

Korean media: AMD has chosen samsung the next generation products for the production

Etnews reports said, AMD choose samsung is based on the yield of 28 nm TSMC and supply security issues to consider. If true, samsung is expected as early as from the third quarter of 2016 saw the related exchange revenue.

Etnews also pointed out that GlobalFoundries will also provide support for AMD chips. In fact, this also conforms to the public before - GlobalFoundries had said in a statement, in early November this year has been successful for AMD produce 14 nm process chip based on the samples. Etnews believe that AMD at the same time, choose two or more chip suppliers to make sure that the next generation of chips in plentiful supply.