Amd rx 5500, samsung participle in the manufacture of this gpu

AMD is rumored to have used Samsung's 7nm manufacturing capabilities to create its Radeon RX 5500 series of graphics cards, allowing them to create their RDNA graphics cards compatible with portable devices without taking up wafers from Zen 2 CPU production.

Samsung assisted AMD in manufacturing AMD RX 5500 graphics cards at 7nm

This information comes from Fudzilla sources, although they make sense given TSMC's high 7nm demand for silicon. Sourcing from multiple labs enables AMD to create more 7nm products, which is imperative for AMD to gain market share in the CPU segment.

Today, AMD's RX 5500 series graphics cards are used in new MacBook Pro systems, OEM gaming systems (RX 5500 for OEM only), gaming notebooks (RX 5500M) and as stand- alone graphics cards (RX 5500 XT). These graphics cards have enabled AMD to be competitive in the mid-range GPU market and have made AMD viable as a manufacturer of notebook GPUs.

If true, acquiring the RX 5500 (Navi 14) chips from Samsung is a smart move by AMD, allowing them to unleash TSMC's 7nm manufacturing capabilities for their higher-margin Zen 2 processors and graphics cards from the Radeon RX 5700 series. With Samsung hoping to overtake TSMC as the world's leading producer of semiconductors, it's easy to see why AMD's business would also benefit Samsung, especially given Nvidia's inability to launch 7nm Geforce products.

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Nvidia does not expect to launch a 7nm graphics card until the second quarter of 2020, making AMD the sole producer of 7nm GPUs for at least another quarter.

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