The AMD Radeon Technologies Group is responsible for everything that is related to Radeon graphics cards and APUs. In this January 2016 update we can talk a little more about the new upcoming Radeon architecture which is dubbed, Polaris.

Polaris is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, and the 50th brightest star in the night sky. It is very close to the north celestial pole, Polaris is the North Star.

An embargo has lifted and as little information as it really is, today we talk about the architecture behind the Radeon GPU series that will launch in (likely) Q2 of 2016. There has been a lot of talk and gossip in regard to what fab node and process AMD will produce their new GPUs on. Will it be 14nm or 16nm ? To date that is still not 100% confirmed, it looks though that AMD will be using a combo of foundries for their 2016 chips. TSMC seems unlikely, yet Global Foundries is the first name that normally come to mind. Partly-confirmed now is that not the just GloFo, yet Samsung will be fabbing next years Arctic Islands family of GPUs alongside Global Foundries. Since it's Samsung this will be a 14nm FinFET fab, opposed to Nvidia who will be using 16nm for their Pascal architecture at TSMC.