Posted on Monday, July 11 2011 @ 22:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
DigiTimes
reports poor yields at TSMC have forced NVIDIA to delay the introduction of 28nm GPUs from late 2011 to 2012, while the launch of 20/22nm parts is now anticipated in 2014 rather than 2013.
The sources believe that the delay is due to unsatisfactory yield rates of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) 28nm process as well as lower-than-expected performance of Kepler.
TSMC originally expected its 28nm capacity at Fab15 to be available in the fourth quarter of 2011 and was set to start pilot production for its 20nm process technology in the third quarter of 2012.
AMD is expected to introduce its first 28nm GPUs in the first half of 2012.
