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NVIDIA Moving Ampere to TSMC 7nm - Anyone else find this hard to believe?

Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:08 pm

Anyone else find this hard to believe? I thought TSMC's 7nm capacity was basically completely allocated beforehand. If Nvidia had any allocation, I could see them using it for a Super card or two, with the vast majority of the Ampere still being Samsung fabed.
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NVIDIA Reportedly Moving Ampere to 7 nm TSMC in 2021
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"A report straight from DigiTimes claims that NVIDIA is looking to upgrade their Ampere consumer GPUs from Samsung's 8 nm to TSMC's 7 nm. According to the source, the volume of this transition should be "very large", but most likely wouldn't reflect the entirety of Ampere's consumer-facing product stack. The report claims that TSMC has become more "friendly" to NVIDIA. This could be because TSMC now has available manufacturing capacity in 7 nm due to some of its clients moving to the company's 5 nm node, or simply because TSMC hadn't believed NVIDIA to consider Samsung as a viable foundry alternative - which it now does - and has thus lowered pricing.
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Re: NVIDIA Moving Ampere to TSMC 7nm - Anyone else find this hard to believe?

Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:15 pm

Huawei's been kicked out for political reasons. Apple has moved all of their stuff to 5 nm. That has freed up more of TSMC's 7 nm capacity for AMD and NVidia. AMD reportedly increased their 7 nm purchases to 30,000 wafers per month when Huawei went away.
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Re: NVIDIA Moving Ampere to TSMC 7nm - Anyone else find this hard to believe?

Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:29 am

Gotcha. Makes sense. Sounds like a fortuitous situation for Nvidia.
 
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Re: NVIDIA Moving Ampere to TSMC 7nm - Anyone else find this hard to believe?

Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:26 am

Nvidia already made GA100 on TSMC's 7mn node.

Other chips will come out as a retooled Ampere since chip design needs to be tweak for the different node. I suspect Nvidia is going to axe some of the GPGPU functions out of the re-tooled customer designs in order to make it more efficient and be more on par with upcoming RDNA2 at graphical performance/efficiency.
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Re: NVIDIA Moving Ampere to TSMC 7nm - Anyone else find this hard to believe?

Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:56 am

Companies change suppliers/manufacturers all the time. Not that hard to believe.

Let the great fab lottery which batch OCs better begin!
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