TSMC doesn’t have anything better and Globalfoundries should be ready for 28nm low-power production in Q4 2010. For other chips, such as GPUs, it should be ready to start risk production in Q1 2011.

Since ATI’s next generation card codenamed Hecatoncheires, which is the successor of the 5xx0 series, should launch this year, our sources are very confident that we are talking about yet another 40nm part. The 40nm process doesn’t look like the best possible solution, but graphics guys obviously don’t have much choice.

ATI’s next generation Hecatoncheires card will have the hard job of fighting Fermi and Fermi 2, and from what we hear Fermi should be just a beginning while the second generation should bring even more performance into the game.

We expect to see 28nm GPUs in 2011, probably towards the second half of it.

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ATI next generation is codenamed Hecatoncheires