Posted on Wednesday, December 18 2019 @ 14:10 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
heard from its sources that AMD contracted Samsung to manufacture the Navi 14 GPUs for its Radeon RX 5500 XT video card. Previously, it was believed that these chips were manufactured by TSMC. Demand for TSMC's 7nm node remains higher than supply so tapping Samsung gives AMD the opportunity to bring more GPUs to the market. It's not sure whether all Navi 14 GPUs are made by Samsung, or just some variants.
It appears that AMD and Samsung will not only work together on a mobile smartphone GPU, as according to our sources, AMD is also using Samsung's fabs for its latest Navi 14 GPU for the Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card. Unfortunately, it is hard to tell from where the chip originated, and we are not sure if all Navi 14 GPUs are made at Samsung, including the fully enabled Navi 14 GPU for Radeon Pro 5500M in Apple's Macbook Pro 16-inch laptop.
