With Nvidia and AMD reportedly preparing to produce next-generation 7nm graphics cards, the two companies have apparently reclaimed whatever 7nm capability is available to TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company). Many tech companies use TSMC to build their chips, and for a while Apple was their main customer for 7nm chips. However, Apple now plans to switch to using 5nm chips in its products, which could free up TSMC to work with its other customers. It seems that Nvidia and AMD are wasting no time taking advantage of this opportunity. The revelation that Nvidia and AMD are increasing their orders with TSMC comes from a DigiTimes report, which says that "an acceleration of near-term orders placed by AMD and Nvidia will allow TSMC to post relatively strong results compared to d 'other foundries in H2020 7, according to industry sources.” As Wccftech reports, it now looks like AMD is poised to become TSMC's biggest 2020nm customer in HXNUMX XNUMX, surpassing Qualcomm and HiSilicon.
Prepare for battle
The report also claims that Nvidia has bought a lot of 7nm released capacity, suggesting that it is gearing up for the release of its next generation of Ampere graphics cards. Wccftech also claims to have heard from a reliable source that Nvidia was planning to reveal a new server GPU at its GTC conference, which was ultimately canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The website also claims that Nvidia is waiting to see what AMD is doing with its flagship Big Navi GPU release before launching its next-generation RTX 3000 graphics cards. We could have seen them at Computex 2020, which has been postponed to September 2020 due to the pandemic. While this seems to have had an impact on the release plans of the two companies, it appears that both are continuing to build up their stock in preparation for their inevitable next-gen battle. In fact, the Covid-19 pandemic seems to have helped them a bit, as it has led other companies to reduce (or cancel) their orders with TSMC, increasing their available capacity by 7nm. which has now been bought by the two GPU giants. Today's best graphics card deals XFX - RS AMD Radeon RX 570 ... ASUS GeForce GTX 1650 Phoenix ... XFX Radeon RX 570 DirectX 12 ... ASUS AMD Radeon RX 5700 8 GB ...