Intel would have requested TSMC to manufacture the Xe DG2 @ 7nm
Intel cedes the manufacture of discrete graphics Xe DG2 to the foundry TSMC who will produce them in the 7nm node
Last week, in the meeting we had with Intel, they told us that they had three plants in full production of chips under the 10nm node. But it seems that this production is intended exclusively for processors. New information indicates that the Intel Xe DG2, the company's discrete graphics, will be produced by TSMC under the 7nm node.
Note that TSMC is having a lot of trouble meeting the demand from AMD. The Taiwanese foundry is not incapable of meeting the growing demand for Ryzen and Radeon chips. So big is the problem that AMD has discontinued the Radeon RX 5000.
[amazon box=»B0883NPQSZ» title=»Intel Core i5-10500″ star_rating=»none» template=»table»]Intel would have requested TSMC to manufacture the Intel Xe DG2 under the 7nm node
Intel is currently working on the production of Xeon and Tiger Lake processors under the 10nm node. Even with the three factories, the production capacity would not be enough to also produce the GPUs. This has forced Intel to look for a third-party manufacturer that has the capacity to supply the quantity of products demanded.
We know little about the Xe DG2 at the moment. Competing with AMD and NVIDIA, which already have a consolidated market, will not be easy. Intel will have to adapt to the price impositions set by NVIDIA with Ampere graphics.
We know, from leaks, that the Intel Xe DG2 will have up to 512 Execution Units, which represents 4096 Shaders Units. Apparently these new graphics could come with up to 8GB GDDR6. An amount that seems very low, if we compare it with the graphics presented yesterday by NVIDIA.
It should be noted that Intel and TSMC lithography are not comparable . Although TSMC's lithography indicates a lower node than Intel's, this does not mean one is better than the other. These lithography measurements indicate density, not transistor size.
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[irp]Source: TPU
