Posted on Wednesday, July 03 2019 @ 10:05 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
NVIDIA has a long-standing relationship with TSMC but it looks like more of its future GPUs will be produced by Samsung. NVIDIA Korea boss Yoo Eung-joon
confirmed to Korea Herald that the company will use Samsung's 7nm EUV process for its next-generation GPU (which is presumably Ampere). NVIDIA's current Turing architecture is made on TSMC's 12nm process, while the upcoming AMD Navi GPUs use a 7nm process.
During a press conference in Seoul, Nvidia Korea chief Yoo Eung-joon said that its production of advanced GPUs will be conducted by Samsung Electronics with its 7-nanometer extreme ultraviolet process.
“It is meaningful that Samsung Electronics’ 7-nanometer process would be used in manufacturing our next-generation GPU,” said Yoo. “Until recently, Samsung has been working really hard to secure (partners) for foundry cooperation.”
The reason for the switch to Samsung is unknown. The South Korean electronics giant has been struggling for quite some time to get its foundry business off the ground and is reportedly offering deep discounts to lure customers away from TSMC.NVIDIA's first 7nm GPUs are expected in 2020.
