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Guru3D.com » News » Intel DG2 GPU will be fabbed on latest TSMC 7nm fabrication process

Intel DG2 GPU will be fabbed on latest TSMC 7nm fabrication process

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/12/2021 01:34 PM | source: reuters | 28 comment(s)
Intel DG2 GPU will be fabbed on latest TSMC 7nm fabrication process

Intel Corp plans fan its second generation discrete graphics chip for personal computers in hopes will help it combat the rise of Nvidia Corp, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The chip, known as “DG2”, will be made on a new chipmaking process at TSMC that has not yet been formally named but is an enhanced version of its 7-nanometer process, the two people familiar the matter said. Intel, long the world leader in chip-making technology, has lost its manufacturing edge in recent years and is now debating whether to outsource some of it flagship central processor unit chips, or CPUs, slated for release in 2023.

Activist investor Third Point LLC last month sent Intel’s board a letter asking it to consider whether to keep its chip design and manufacturing operations under one roof. Intel has long outsourced chips other than its flagship CPUs and is a major customer of TSMC, the world’s leading contract chip manufacturer. The head of Intel’s self-driving subsidiary Mobileye last month told Reuters that its next autonomous vehicle processor will be continue to be manufactured by TSMC on its 7-nanometer process.

With its graphics chips, Intel is looking to tap into the booming PC gaming market. Its DG2 chip is expected to be released late this year or in early 2022 and compete with Nvidia and AMD gaming chips that cost between $400 and $600, the sources said.

The chip manufacturing technology for the DG2 is expected to be more advanced than the Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 8-nanometer process used in Nvidia’s most recent round of graphics chips released in the fall, the people said. They added it would also have a leg up on the Advanced Micro Devices graphics chips made on TSMC’s 7-nanometer process.

Intel declined to comment and TSMC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Intel officials last year said that it would outsource the DG2 chip but did not say which chip manufacturer had won the business or which chipmaking process it would use.







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Quetzall
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#5876488 Posted on: 01/12/2021 01:37 PM
Competition is always good. But I seriously doubt that Intel will take the performance crown in the GPU department.

Undying
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#5876492 Posted on: 01/12/2021 01:48 PM
It does not have to take the crown just to be competitive.

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#5876498 Posted on: 01/12/2021 02:19 PM
I thought it was gonna be 6nm

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#5876501 Posted on: 01/12/2021 02:27 PM
Well, we'll see. There hasn't been a third player on the field of desktop GPUs for a while now.

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#5876502 Posted on: 01/12/2021 02:31 PM
Seems like Intel is not expecting to sell too many units because TSMC can't manufacture them too many chips. Radeon 6000 series is even more scarce than Nvidia 3000, and from what I've understood, shop shelves aren't exactly in a danger of collapsing from the weight of PS5 and Xbox Series x. Ryzen 5000 is also suffering from supply issues, but new Threadrippers and EPYCs should still be made. Not to mention all the smartphone processors and such that haven't yet moved onto the 5nm node. This the process that Intel is planning to use for its GPUs, huh? They would have far more room in their own facilities.

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