Tsmc receives orders from nvidia for manufacturing gpus at 7nm
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TSMC has started mass production of its 7nm process node, and NVIDIA appears to be one of the main customers, including AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, and Bitmain. The company is expected to deliver the first 7nm products in the second half of 2018 and it looks like we are going to see some major releases in the coming months.
NVIDIA to use TSMC again for its new 7nm GPUs
We had already discussed the products that AMD planned to launch using TSMC's 7nm node, but this was not the only one. NVIDIA has long used TSMC to produce its high-end graphics chips. NVIDIA's 28nm Maxwell GPUs were manufactured by TSMC in 2014, taking performance efficiency and clock speeds to new heights. NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs sold spectacularly against the competition, which would take several years to reach the level of their 14nm FinFET (Global Foundries) GPUs.
NVIDIA Pascal GPUs were also manufactured on TSMC's 16nm FinFET node. Once again, taking efficiency and frequency to incredible levels. The Pascal GPUs were launched in 2016 and remain the kings of graphics performance to this day, led by the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti that deliver exceptional gaming performance. NVIDIA also used Samsung factories to produce its low-end Pascal GPUs, such as the GP107.
Apple will always be a priority for the company compared to GPU manufacturers like NVIDIA and AMD. The products that AMD plans to launch in the second half of 2018 are intended for HPC and do not require an exorbitant number of wafers. But for gaming graphics cards a large supply capacity is required. What we know is that most of these orders will be delivered in the first half of 2019.
NVIDIA will discuss its first 7nm products in 2019, two years after the announcement and launch of Volta GPUs. As for gaming cards, we are not sure that they will use 7nm or 12nm technology, but despite everything, we expect a big jump in performance when they are announced in the coming months.
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Amd migrates 7nm chip manufacturing from globalfoundries to tsmc
AMD's 7nm process change will now be entirely the responsibility of TSMC, rather than AMD's traditional factory, GlobalFoundries.
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