Wednesday, January 20th 2010
TSMC Claims 40 nm Yield Issues Resolved
TSMC, one of the world's major semiconductor foundries, said that it has resolved all issues pertaining to proper yields of chips built on the 40 nanometre node. During a company event on the 19th, Mark Liu, Senior VP of Operations, said that the quality of production on the 40 nm node is almost on par with the 65 nm one. Liu stated that the chamber matching problems that had impacted yield rates for the company's 40nm node have been resolved.
TSMC caters to graphics processor giants NVIDIA and AMD, with both having designs of 40 nm performance graphics processors with multi-billion transistor counts. AMD has been selling 40 nm GPUs made by TSMC since its previous generation ATI Radeon HD 4770, it currently makes all its Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs on the node. NVIDIA is poised to release its first billion transistor 40 nm GPU, the GF100, in its consumer GeForce brand later this quarter.
In addition to this, TSMC has just finished building a new factory at the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), Taiwan, part of its Fab 12. The new facility will be able to commence volume production of 28 nm products as early as by Q3 2010.
Source:
DigiTimes
TSMC caters to graphics processor giants NVIDIA and AMD, with both having designs of 40 nm performance graphics processors with multi-billion transistor counts. AMD has been selling 40 nm GPUs made by TSMC since its previous generation ATI Radeon HD 4770, it currently makes all its Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs on the node. NVIDIA is poised to release its first billion transistor 40 nm GPU, the GF100, in its consumer GeForce brand later this quarter.
In addition to this, TSMC has just finished building a new factory at the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), Taiwan, part of its Fab 12. The new facility will be able to commence volume production of 28 nm products as early as by Q3 2010.
22 Comments on TSMC Claims 40 nm Yield Issues Resolved
Competitive pricing will result I hope.
If this is true that is : [
If the yield issues are really solved, then AMD should be able to ship as much chips as the demands are. That should drop the prices a little. I'm atleast waiting for Nvidias "Fermi". Not because I'm a fanboy, but because I'm interested in seeing what the Fermi can do. And if it isn't any good, the AMD cards will go down in price so I can buy one of those :D
No competition.
What you want is both companies having epic products so then they compete with one an other and thus have to lower prices in order to entice customers :D
A 28nm SOI HD6870 would be wickedly cool running and have good clocks.
Shady business under the table with NVIDIA :laugh:.
Nah, just kidding..
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That would be really, really good!
Commence the price wars! Consumers rejoice!:rockout:
*Begins doing the sprikler and the dice roll*
NOT AGAIN!
Thankfully, it probably won't happen again. Fermi will beat 5870 and lose to 5970. But the real kicker will be if Fermi beats 5970 in certain ways. I know I'm getting Fermi anyway.. for folding.
Luckily I had just put my drink down before reading that lol
and this is terrific news....It also means I'm not going to buy the bigger more expensive PSU for future needs:D a 500-600watt should be fine :cool: