Posted on Thursday, April 16 2020 @ 14:47 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
TechPowerUp
picked up a rumor that TSMC has created a refinement of its 5nm process technology specifically for AMD. No details are known, but it's believed this node will be used for Zen 4 processors as well as the RDNA3 GPUs. Both will launch on a 5nm node.
AMD is developing its "Zen 4" CPU microarchitecture for a 5 nm-class silicon fabrication node, although the company doesn't appear to have zeroed in on a node for its RDNA3 graphics architecture and CDNA2 scalar compute architecture. In its recent public reveal of the two, AMD chose not to specify the foundry node for the two, which come out roughly around the same time as "Zen 4." It wouldn't be far fetched to predict that AMD and TSMC were waiting on certainty for the new 5 nm-class node's development.
