… Following our March report that Nvidia was unhappy with TSMC , it's reported that the company then threatened to jump ship, resulting in TSMC granting it priority over Qualcomm and AMD's 28nm chips. In theory, TSMC's 28nm process has been available to its partners since late 2011. …
… Reportedly AMD will contract for 200,000 wafers over the whole of next year, making it TSMC's largest customer on 7nm. The wafer order numbers are speculations by the China Times, not factual reports of order size from TSMC. …
… Moorhead questioned AMD on the deal and received the following quote: AMD has strong foundry partnerships and our primary manufacturing partners are GLOBALFOUNDRIES and TSMC. …
… Digitimes just reported that TSMC's three biggest customers -- Apple, AMD, and Nvidia -- have already asked it to reduce future wafer orders. …
… Whether AMD raises its prices in general is a separate question, of course. The company claims the hybrid bonding method developed by TSMC offers a 3x improvement in interconnect efficiency and a whopping 15x improvement compared to a traditional microbump array. …
… AMD sells far fewer GPUs than Nvidia, but shipments have been even more lopsided these past 10 months. Much of AMD's existing 7nm allocation at TSMC has gone to support the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, and TSMC doesn't exactly have a lot of excess capacity to spread around right now. …
… Intel Core i9-10900K CPU Review: Comet Lake Paints a Target on AMD’s Matisse Intel May Have Reserved Its Top-End 28W Ice Lake CPUs Exclusively For Apple Intel, TSMC Reportedly in Talks to Build New US Foundries
… Although this will have to face off with the likes of TSMC's own 1.6nm node when it's released, Intel's features backside power delivery and could be better suited for high-end data center tasks, where the TSMC solution may be better suited for consumer hardware. …
… According to WCCFTech Opens in a new window , AMD will be dropping Compute Units CU in favor of Work Processor Groups WGP , and the MCM will feature a Graphics Core Die GCD and a Multi-Cache Die, the former coming from TSMC's 5nm line, and the latter from its 6nm process. …
… TSMC 12-inch foundry. Photo by TSMC. If mobile companies continue moving to new nodes more quickly than other types of silicon, TSMC will have good reason to invest in facilities to build chips near the leading edge. …