TSMC will produce 16nm FinFET Nvidia Geforce GPUs - No Word For AMD Radeons

Nosotros covered TSMC's plans to produce the adjacent generation of Nvidia'southward GPUs a while back and now an even more solid report has been released from DigiTimes. TSMC is getting ready to industry Nvidia'due south 16nm FinFET GPUs and there is a very loftier chance now that we see 20nm process skipped entirely. However, something that is very interesting is the fact that AMD'south name is once again missing from the present partners listing.

tsmc_semiconductor_fab14_production An paradigm of cut dies in TSMC's fabrication. @unkown

AMD not listed in 16nm FinFET Partners List at TSMC - Nvidia 16nm FinFET GPUs Confirmed

However, there is just a sliver of uncertainty left equally this is all the same a study from third party sources. TSMC will be holding its annual suppliers conference on Th and we will know for certain whether AMD's name was but further down the listing or completely absent-minded equally we suspect. The details of 16nm and 10nm processes will be shared and all the major semiconductor partners will be there including Nvidia.

16nm FinFET tech is at present prepare for development since it has passed the required verification procedures and almost lx projects are already underway. Mass production is scheduled to start sometime in mid 2022. The known products in evolution on 16 nm are Avago, Freescale, LG, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Renesas and Xilinx. The list is obviously not exhaustive in nature but AMD should yet have been included in this short list. There is the slight chance that the reporter did not consider AMD an important enough company to mention but the chance of that in my opinion is quite low unless the reporter had zero knowledge of the PC Hardware ecosystem.

TSMC is getting fix to buy fabrication equipment from ASML Holdings and the tech in question is the NuFlare lithography tech and will total to around $102 One thousand thousand Dollar. Total expenditure of TSMC is expected to grow upto $9.half dozen to $x Billion. This seems to one of the virtually positive reports I accept heard about the semiconductor Industry in a long fourth dimension. Logically speaking, the but way they could recover and even surpass the lack of momentum (due to the 20nm delay) is past skipping the broken node entirely and moving to 16nm FinFET. Since mass product is scheduled for mid 2022, we should see 16nm FinFET GPUs past Q3 2022 at the earliest.