The 20nm node remains to be problematic and as such companies stick to 28nm for the time being. Next in line is AMD who confirmed in an interview that the company will use 28nm this year throughout the year. According to the transcript of Advanced Micro Devices’ CEO Discusses Q1 2014 Results – Earnings Call, AMD will stick to 28nm process this year. The company is in the process of designing 20nm architecture and it will then move to FinFET 16nm.

 "I think what I said earlier sort of what we're doing in terms of technology strategy, we are 28 this year, we have 20-nanometer in design, and then FinFET thereafter. So that's the overall product portfolio," she said.

Both AMD and NVIDIA bake their GPUs at TSMC, which has faced delays in implementing its 20 nanometer silicon fab node transition, forcing both companies to come up with new GPUs on existing 28 nm nodes.

NVIDIA is expected to tape out its performance-segment GM204 and mid-range GM206 chips, both of which are 28 nm, later this month, and the first GeForce GTX products based on the two are expected to be released in late-Q4 2014 and early-Q1 2015, respectively.

Lisa Su – SVP and General Manager of Global Business Units

Sure, Chris. So let me take that and give you a little bit of our thinking.

So in terms of product and technology selection, certainly we need to be at the leading-edge of the technology roadmap. So what we’ve said in the past is certainly this year all of our products are in 28-nanometer across both, you know, graphics client and our semi-custom business. We are, you know, actively in the design phase for 20-nanometer and that will come to production. And then clearly we’ll go to FinFET. So that would be the progression of it.

Lisa Su – SVP and General Manager of Global Business Units