The fewer contract semiconductor manufacturers that have mastered advanced process technologies, the more frequently Samsung appears in industry news. It must be acknowledged that many sources of these rumors are still wishful thinking, and the role of the Korean partner in the production of graphics processors for AMD and NVIDIA, for example, is less significant.
AMD representatives recently denied rumors about Samsung's involvement in the production of 7-nm graphics processors with the RDNA (Navi) architecture for the Radeon RX 5500 series of video cards.
Let us recall that the rumor about cooperation between AMD and Samsung in this area was not so long ago Fudzilla resource, but to the representatives of the publication Official comments were only received the day before yesterday, and the information was quite the opposite. AMD employees clarified that Samsung is not currently involved in the production of 7nm Radeon RX 5500 series GPUs. Like the Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs and Ryzen 3000 CPUs, the Navi 14 GPUs are manufactured by TSMC.
From comments from NVIDIA representatives It's worth noting that Samsung remains a secondary player for this customer as well. Samsung's production capacity will be minimally utilized for NVIDIA's 7-nm GPUs, but the Korean partner will help establish production of the 8-nm Tegra Orin-generation processors, which will be available for robotic systems by 2022.
Source: 3dnews.ru
