Intel will leave 10nm after dg1: tsnc 6nm and 3nm for the future

Intel may have a plan to drop 10nm after DG1 for the next generation Xe, where it will use 6nm and 3nm of TSMC.

Intel seems to have taken its high-performance Intel Xe graphics cards very seriously. We have received information from Taiwan that will leave you speechless because we could see a future alliance with TSMC. And is that this chip maker offers the latest technology in the manufacturing process. The next generation of Intel Xe could have a 6nm and 3nm node.

Intel DG1, the beginning of a disturbing GPU era

Our colleagues at Taiwan TechNews have made a rumor that has turned the net upside down. Intel will confirm its landing in the GPU sector with its DG1 this year, a component with a 10nm node. With a consumption of 25W, its performance is higher than that of NVIDIA MX 250.

The information focuses on the development of Intel Xe. In the future, Intel hopes to jointly develop its next generation with TSMC with a 6nm manufacturing process in 2021 and a 3nm node in 2022. Intel CFO George Davis has already publicly stated that, in response to insufficient 14nm process capacity, Intel would increase its capacity in 2020.

For Intel, the problem of the manufacturing process has gone very far and it is a problem that must be solved. Various sources suggest that Intel will start producing its GPUs and chipsets using TSMC's 6nm EUV node in 2021. The reason TSMC produces GPUs is because its manufacturing is simpler and TSMC specializes in it.

DG1: launch and price

According to official Intel data, the Intel Xe DG1 architecture will use 10nm and be available in late 2020. It will have 96 EUs ( Execution Units ) for a total of 768 cores, a base frequency of 1 GHz, a turbo frequency of 1.5 GHz and 1 MB. Finally, it would have 3 GB of video memory and a maximum consumption of 25W. As for its performance, it is located between the GTX 1050 and the GTX 1650.

DG1's positioning will not be high-end, but there will be two new generations of DG2 in the future. DG2 is estimated to be for the high-end graphics card range and will use the 7nm manufacturing process manufactured by TSMC, although others claim it will be 6nm EUV. The truth is that Intel is considering mass manufacturing the 7nm process by 2021, as we saw with Ponte Vecchio for data centers.

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Do you think these Intel Xe will have a great impact? Do you think that in 2021 Intel will use 7nm or 6nm?

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