Nvidia to increase 40nm orders with TSMC for 2009

Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 20 May 2009]

Nvidia has moved to scale up its orders for 40nm graphics chips at foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for 2009, according to sources at graphics card makers. The chip designer expects 40nm to account for 30% of its overall GPU shipments by the end of 2009.

Nvidia has recently completed the tape-out of its next-generation (GT300) GPU on TSMC’s 40nm process, indicated the sources.

Nvidia has also expressed interest in becoming an initial client of TSMC’s 28nm process, which will start initial production in first-quarter 2010, the sources noted.

Nvidia declined to comment on market speculation.

Source: digitimes

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Not enough 40nm ATI HD 4770 for hard launch next week?

According to one of our sources, ATI might be short on HD 4770 cards if it decide to launch it on April 28th. This great US $99 card has drawn a lot of attention as this is going to be a first 40nm GPU on the market and it should be a great bang for buck card.

According to our sources, the card will be very hard to find during first one or two weeks as ATI doesn’t have enough RV740 GPUs to do a real world wide launch. We all know that ATI wants to be the first one on the market, but paper launch is not very popular thing.

It’s not a classic paper launch as there will be some cards around at launch and ATI will ramp up the production eventually, but if our sources are right a lot of people will have to wait a bit to get their hands on one of these. The lack of quantity on market might be in connection with possible huge popularity and enormous size of sub $100 market, but we are sure it should quickly get better.

Source:fudzilla

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