Rumor: Intel would shift Xe GPU production towards TSMC at 6nm
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Astyanax
with 6nm being just a revision of 7, its not impossible.
Fediuld
So Intel dGPU which is barely faster than AMD 25W laptop APU, would come next year at 6nm? 😛
Undying
I really hope Intel knows what they are doing. So far Xe is nothing but a rumor.
Dimitrios1983
I have 0% faith with Raja.
JamesSneed
This seems very possible with so many Intel engineers that have worked with TSMC, TSMC already creating 90%+ of the dedicated GPU's so Intel does not have to tune there 7nm for GPU's, and Intels lack of fab capacity.
tunejunky
color me extremely skeptical of this "news".
Intel has spent over a billion dollars on its fabs in the last three years (i.e. 10nm debacle) and has shown great progress with its mobile cpus built on the smaller node(s).
AND Intel's 10nm = TSMC 7nm. yes TSMC is ahead and yes TSMC will deliver smaller nodes sooner BUT Intel has vast capacity and capabilities that have been overshadowed (by corp. incompetence) but Intel is responsible to its shareholders and not producing in its own fabs lowers its ROI. this information - IF TRUE would have been in the quarterly earnings call and it wasn't.
Astyanax
intel can barely fab their own cpu's atm.
JamesSneed
I'm not saying it's true but Intel has serious fab capacity issues. Its so bad they mention it every quarter on the investor calls. So if they did it it wouldn't be about not using there fab investment it would be more about fab capacity so they could use the new 10nm and 7nm nodes for CPU's.
schmidtbag
I too find this unlikely. GPUs don't tend to need to clock very high, and it's the high clock rates that makes <10nm a real struggle. First-gen Xe is already going to be a bit of a money pit and isn't likely to be a hot seller, so I don't find it likely they'd thin their margins further by going to TSMC.
Silva
I have all my faith on Raja...
...that he'll f*ck that up, again!
ruthan
I smell Larabee..
Neo Cyrus
Not matter how much Intel disgusts me, I'm going to pray to every character I know for Intel's success at this. The market is absolutely fracked, we desperately need a 3rd option. Their dGPU was likely a beta stage mobile chip slapped onto a plain PCB then rushed to run demos with what was probably alpha stage software. There's zero doubt in my mind that they could do a lot better with what they've already shown. Rumours are that Intel is aiming to link many of these GPUs together in a single card. If they pull such a thing off and continue to develop that, it could realistically make for a competitor in a few years. Please Intel, you shameless shitbags, succeed, my wallet and/or my frame rates need this!
yeeeeman
Nope. The GPU that was shown in public was a SDV and is not representative of final product performance. Also, it is built on 10nm. The final DG1 should equal GTX1050 within 25-75W TDP range, which respectable for a first try on a dedicated GPU.
The GPU being built on 6nm is DG2 and we don't know much about it yet.
