Nvidia Ampere Samsung Or Tsmc
One thing is clear samsung can t produce the ampere based gpus quick enough or in enough volume so from the looks of things nvidia will be moving a large chunk of wafer fabrication to tsmc.
Nvidia ampere samsung or tsmc. 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. Digitimes is reporting. That means the company could convince nvidia to fab ampere on samsung s own process rather than the process of its foremost competitor. Clearly the a100 is the price doesn t even matter market segment.
Nvidia gets ready for 7nm ampere and 5nm next gen hopper places orders with tsmc samsung hopper architecture will succeed ampere by rob thubron on may 6 2020 5 15 37 comments. Nvidia has confirmed that its ampere second gen rtx cards are all built using the samsung 8n node as opposed to the tsmc 7nm production process used for its initial ampere ga100 gpu. Nvidia s upcoming geforce ampere family of gpus will be built almost entirely on samsung s 8 nanometer silicon fabrication process that s derived from its 10 nm node. 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.
Samsung gaining nvidia at tsmc s expense is a big power play. Nvidia is reportedly partnering with tsmc for 7nm ampere production next year a smart way to avoid samsung s yield troubles by cohen coberly on october 13 2020 17 08 38 comments. Nvidia working with both samsung and tsmc for ampere in early june digitimes reported that nvidia would be producing their next generation graphics card at.