There is one area where AMD has a clear advantage, though it's also perhaps to AMD's detriment. TSMC's N7 process that AMD uses for RDNA2 (and RDNA and Zen 3 and the PS5/XSX) chips clearly delivers better performance and power characteristics than Samsung's custom 8N (really just an...
The former chair and CEO of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a behemoth that produces 90% of the world’s most advanced processor chips, estimates that it would cost up to 50% more to make leading-edge chips in the U.S. than in Taiwan due to labor costs and differ...
Advanced Modelling Process for optimised chips Our special Advanced Modelling Process is part of our suite of in-house tools and flows and enables us to analyse exactly what is going on inside a chip design to ensure that the data flow is balanced properly and that the processors are not stal...
thanks to the ultra-efficient 6 nm class SoC using the TSMC production process, which improves smart phone battery life. It also supports Wi-Fi 6E which is the latest standard that supports tri-band connectivity, while also providing simultaneous connectivity to both FR1 and FR2, with seamless ...
two exceptions to watch are Google, whose TPUs have gained traction in the Stable Diffusion community and in some large GCP deals, and TSMC, who is believed to manufactureallof the chips listed here, including Nvidia GPUs (Intel uses a mix of its own fabs and TSMC to make its chips). ...
TSMC is the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. They manufacture silicon chips for the likes of Apple, NVIDIA and AMD. From day one they have steadfastly committed not to compete with their customers. According to TSMC: “Our mission is to be the trusted technology and capacity provider ...
Intel's 10nm tech seems to be competitive with TSMC's 7nm tech, but the mobile first rollout brings up continued concerns with yields. Ice Lake has better integrated graphics (up to twice as fast as the previous generation), but right now there are only 2-core and 4-core solutions ...
This behaviour of these new designs using quite large amounts of power at these higher frequencies, however being seemingly similar power to TSMC’s process nodes at lower frequencies, points out to me that the 5LPE node has lower performance than TSMC’s N7P node. The fact that the Kirin...
Advanced Modelling Processfor optimised chips Our specialAdvanced Modelling Processis part of our suite of in-house tools and flows and enables us to analyse exactly what is going on inside a chip design to ensure that the data flow is balanced properly and that the processors are not stalled ...