Nvidia's Ada Lovelace GPUs are manufactured on TSMC's 5nm process rather than Samsung's.

leakers don't know jack a year before launch
a year before ampere they were sure it's 7n
and they didn't know about doubling shader count until reviews came out

this k7k guy is supposed to be reputable,but tell me,what has he revealed about nvidia in the last +12 months that eventually happened ?
ga103 skus,7nm refresh,double vram,super skus - where are they ?

 

If Nvidia switch to TSMC it's likely to make the capacity at TSMC even more strained than it already is.

You can't sell any cards if you can't manufacture the chips to go in them.

 

the fact they ordered 5nm capacity desn't mean it's for geforce cards.

 

If Apple's orders have switched to the 3nm process by then, it would free capacity from the 5nm production line.

 

Their strategy is to throw as much random crap at the wall, until something sticks.
Then they will make an article or a video, saying they were right. And people not paying attention, will ignore all the thousands of things they said wrong.
It's no longer about reporting news. It's about creating news and pretending they will become real.

 

moreslawisdead quoting his "secret sources" makes me chuckle


seriously,who would even want to risk spilling confidential info to some college fratboy

 

Edit nvm

 

just like you did with 2080ti

 

Ada Lovelace?...is she any kin to Linda?

 

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.

 

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.

 

Hey, I did not know that, currently reading up on her....Thanks.

 

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.

 

Totally knew whom Ada is but had to google this Linda. I also learned something today.

 

For over a decade now, all of nVidia's architectures use the name of a scientist.
Ada Lovelace is now in the list.

 

I cant blame them they make a decent living from doing this. For us its about knowing what is real or isn't.

 

if true i wouldn't be surprised as TSMC has greater yield and density @5n

but i'm more than a bit skeptical especially as as far as gpu is concerned, as Samsung has far greater availability @5n earlier in the production queue.
at 5n Sammy is just making Exynos (which still isn't as good as Qualcomm Snapdragon) and custom memory when Sammy thought it would have a deeper production queue. Sammy needs high profile customers like Nvidia just to prove they can compete while being a distant third ('tho 2nd @ node) fab

 

yeah, that is gone with the wind, once a company realizes it can sell you a card that was pretty profitable at ~500$ for 2000$, there is no economical logic to go back to selling it at previous prices... we are in this room now and we aint getting out. :/