A few hours ago, the DigiTimes media indicated that Intel had sued TSMC for the manufacture of the Ponte Vecchio GPUs. According to this information, these new GPUs for HPC would be manufactured in 6nm lithography. It is true that Intel has requested TSMC to manufacture 180.000 wafers, but not under the 5nm process, as reported by WCCFTECH.
This medium would have had access to new data that indicates something different. According to this medium, Ponte Vecchio will be manufactured simultaneously in TSMC's 5nm and Intel's 7nm. This makes us think that there will be several versions of these GPUs, depending on the lithography used. Possibly the least powerful GPUs are made by the Taiwanese company.
Ponte Vecchio will be manufactured in TSMC's 5nm and Intel's 7nm
Intel's Ponte Vecchio solution will be the foundation for the next Aurora supercomputer. For Intel to cede all its production to TSMC would have greatly concerned the investors of the blue company. I was even concerned about using TSMC's 6nm lithography, which is nothing more than 7nm lithography with optimizations. These 6nm from TSMC are estimated to be equivalent to 10nm from Intel.
WCCFTECH would have made several inquiries and with the data obtained they explain:
- TSMC's 5nm node would be similar in density to Intel's 7nm. Ponte Vecchio requires that level of density, so 6nm would not be an option
- Ponte Vecchio will have several SKUs
- All Ponte Vecchio SKUs will have an I / O matrix manufactured by Intel
- Compute DIEs will be performed in Intel's 7nm or TSMC's 6nm, depending on SKU
- Rambo Caché will be manufactured solely by Intel
- The connectivity DIE was designed to be manufactured by TSMC and there will be no changes
- Intel has requested 180.000 wafers from TSMC in the 6nm lithography, but not for Ponte Vecchio and is part of an ongoing partnership
Well, these are the data we have at the moment, each one to draw their own conclusions. One thing is clear, Intel has a sea of problems today and we will see how and when it comes out of this well.
[irp]Source: wccftech