NVIDIA to Build Some "Volta" GPUs on Samsung 14 nm Process
South Korean media reports that Samsung secured a large order for GPU contract-manufacturing by NVIDIA. Some of the company's next generation "Volta" family of GPUs could be built on Samsung's 14 nanometer silicon fabrication process, with production expected to begin before year-end. From the looks of it, an year-end production run from Samsung could signal that NVIDIA is balancing manufacturing among multiple semiconductor foundries, since "Volta" based consumer graphics cards under the GeForce GTX brand, could come out sooner than year-end.
NVIDIA's halo product based on "Volta," the TITAN V, features the company's largest GPU based on the architecture, the "GV100." This is an MCM of a 12 nm GPU die, and up to four 32 Gbit HBM2 stacks. The GPU die is built at TSMC, while the HBM2 stacks are sourced from Samsung. It remains to be seen if other high-end and performance-segment GPUs, such as the possible GV102 and GV104 will also be built on 12 nm, or Samsung 14 nm. The year-end production seems to suggest that lower-end "Volta" GPUs could get 14 nm. The company tends to launch high-end GPUs on newer GPU architectures first, and then move down the product-stack toward lower-end GPUs.
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