Nvidia's Ada Lovelace GPUs are manufactured on TSMC's 5nm process rather than Samsung's.
Kopite7Kimi, a well-known Nvidia GPU enthusiast follower, has shared an interesting detail on the future Ada Lovelace GPUs. The entirely new architecture would be based on TSMC's 5nm fabrication technology.
Previously, the tweeter acknowledged that the Ada Lovelace design will be constructed using the 5nm technology, but it was expected that Samsung would produce it. If the report is right, Nvidia will return to TSMC for their 5nm process, which will almost certainly result in the production of at least one high-end GPU series.
Additionally, Kopite7kimi indicated that Ada Lovelace GPUs would come earlier than planned, though no specific date has been provided as the timeframe is still unknown. According to reports, the upcoming GPU series is expected to launch between the second and fourth quarters of 2022. Nvidia may have an earlier than projected mass production start date, therefore the launch could occur in the second quarter of 2020.
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Assuming this is true, it'll be interesting to see if Samsung ever works another deal with Nvidia in the future.
At this point, it could make sense for AMD to contract Samsung for something like the IO die.
To be more specific, she didn't really have much to do with modern computers, but she put down the gravel to the road that would then be paved leading to modern computers. Definitely deserving of the codename.
Why wouldn't they? They are a business and it's not like the number of customers seeking cutting edge nodes is high. That's not to mention that Nvidia still has production with Ampere on TSMC currently. Even if this rumor is true we have no idea of knowing what the extent of production is - could just be ADA100.
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She was the daughter of Lord Byron.
And she was a mathematician, writer and the first programmer.
Basically, one of the most important persons in the creation of computers.
Hey, I did not know that, currently reading up on her....Thanks.
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Not much reading required with Linda, right?

In regards to why Ada got that "honoring", even Einstein said he was standing on the shoulders of giants. So I guess the same goes for e.g. Turing. And some giants might be called Ada.
In regards to 5nm: As long as it's available widely, priced "reasonably", and performance is right, I couldn't care less which node GPUs are getting.
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Totally knew whom Ada is but had to google this Linda. I also learned something today.
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Assuming this is true, it'll be interesting to see if Samsung ever works another deal with Nvidia in the future.
At this point, it could make sense for AMD to contract Samsung for something like the IO die.
She was the daughter of Lord Byron.
And she was a mathematician, writer and the first programmer.
Basically, one of the most important persons in the creation of computers.
To be more specific, she didn't really have much to do with modern computers, but she put down the gravel to the road that would then be paved leading to modern computers. Definitely deserving of the codename.