There will be a bit to talk about on tonight's podcast as we have seen two big changes in the industry this week.  Most recently Jim Anderson, the GM and SVP of AMD's Computing and Graphics section handed in his resignation to become CEO of Lattice Semiconductor.  The 35 year old FPGA company has had quite a history, from filing for Chapter 11 to grabbing IP from Silicon Image to having their purchase by a Chinese corporation blocked by the US Government.  You may have never heard of them but there is a good chance you have seen or used some of their products.  It will be interesting to see what this means for both companies.

The second big change comes from GLOBALFOUNDRIES and is right up Josh's 7nm alley.  They will be abandoning their 7nm process to focus on their 14 and 12nm FinFET as their CEO, Tom Caulfield stated that this move makes sense as many companies have no interest in the new and more expensive fabrication process.  This argument was undermined by AMD's immediately announced they will be moving the production of their next CPUs and GPUs to TSMC.  There are several other companies, one of which being ARM, who are also narrowly focused on moving to 7nm and beyond.  Intel has been quiet so far, for fairly obvious reasons.

"Anderson hails from AMD where he was senior veep and GM of the chip flinger's Computing and Graphics Business Group. He joined AMD in May 2015, following stints at Intel, Avago and LSI, and directly replaces Glen Hawk, who was interim boss and will remain as special advisor to the CEO until the end of October."

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