No, Searing is right.
https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-124They are only about 2-3 weeks from Fab by now too.
They skillfully used our investment dollars against us. Bon-Appetite'.
The up-coming difficulty rise will have devastating effects, have no doubt.
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Some "Bonus" Neptunes are getting held hostage for "brokerage fees" from being held in customs so have your checkbook ready on delivery day.
by TSMC
TSMC delays the mass production of 16nm FinFET chips by up to 6 months
TSMC "This is because the 16nm uses similar [BEOL] process to 20SOC, except for the transistor. Because of the excellent progress in yield learning and readiness in manufacturing maturity and also to meet customers' demand, we plan to pull in 16-nanometer volume production through the of Q2 next year or Q3 year 2015". The full reason behind the delay isn't known right now, but the demand of 20nm is growing quick with the launch of the new iPhone, with Apple tapping TSMC for the production of its A8 and A8X chips.
Apple to replace TSMC with Samsung to produce A9 chipset for next iPhone Apple chose Samsung over TSMC for the A9 chip because of Samsung have soon 14/16 nm The move could let Apple cram more processing capabilities into a smaller space. Meanwhile, TSMC is still at 20 nanometers.No 16 nm working chips.
new target was June/July of 2015 for 16nm FinFET. And a quarter or two later for 16nm FinFET+. However now TSMC has reportedly postponed equipment installation from the first half of 2015 to the second half of 2015, pushing mass production deep into 2016.
Read more:
http://wccftech.com/tsmcs-16nm-finfet-faces-delays-qualcomm-jumps-ship-samsung/#ixzz3SlRFQ4xLKNC 16nm tape-out completed is big Lie. Now on planet Earth nobody have mass production 14/16 nm chips.
ASIC's are not near the complexity of Computer chips, and "The transistor" is nearly all the ASIC is packed with, so it does not require the "BEOL" process, and KNC's little order isn't "mass production"
You won't have the opportunity to buy any of them anyway, as they are not "for sale" until they have another node process developed and have used them up on the cloud..... which is why and how TSMC can announce such things when referring to "normal" chip production.
Also... tape-out, DOES NOT mean it's done... They need go through "Fabrication" yet which includes the packaging and pinning process before they get shipped to Sweden for pcb mounting. In the past, KNC has completed "Fab" within 8 weeks of Tapeout, and it's been 4 weeks already.
You shall see... don't be surprised lol. This is Deja-Vu on both 28 and 20nm... the same comments were posted.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/177240-tsmc-arm-announce-first-16nm-finfet-tapeout-of-big-little-cortex-a57-soc