Thursday, September 17th 2015

NVIDIA "Pascal" GPUs to be Built on 16 nm TSMC FinFET Node

NVIDIA's next-generation GPUs, based on the company's "Pascal" architecture, will be reportedly built on the 16 nanometer FinFET node at TSMC, and not the previously reported 14 nm FinFET node at Samsung. Talks of foundry partnership between NVIDIA and Samsung didn't succeed, and the GPU maker decided to revert to TSMC. The "Pascal" family of GPUs will see NVIDIA adopt HBM2 (high-bandwidth memory 2), with stacked DRAM chips sitting alongside the GPU die, on a multi-chip module, similar to AMD's pioneering "Fiji" GPU. Rival AMD, on the other hand, could build its next-generation GCNxt GPUs on 14 nm FinFET process being refined by GlobalFoundries.
Source: BusinessKorea
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52 Comments on NVIDIA "Pascal" GPUs to be Built on 16 nm TSMC FinFET Node

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ironcerealbox
I hope you realize that you said, in-the-end, the same thing as I did.
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mcraygsx
ShurikNLower fab processes will most likely bring lower power, so maybe WC will not be required?
Not everyone like the idea of WC in their system. I am hoping that these next gen chips don't require a massive coolers and like one of the member said that is exactly the point of die shrink.
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