AMD has set high hopes for its upcoming Zen PC chips, but the company has now offered some clarity on how it will manufacture successor chips.

Current Zen chips will be made using the 14-nanometer process, but the next important process for AMD is 7-nm, the company said. AMD has renewed an accord with spinoff GlobalFoundries that may include manufacturing those chips using that process.

The 14-nm and 7-nm processes “are the important nodes” for AMD, said a company spokesman in an email. AMD is planning CPUs, GPUs, and custom chip manufacturing advances on those nodes.

That’s different from Intel, which is jumping to the 10-nm process next year before taking on 7-nm. GlobalFoundries’ roadmap is unclear, though it has been internally developing 10-nm and 7-nm technologies.

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