Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU Will Be Made on TSMC 6nm Process, CPUs Could Be TSMC 3nm

Re:Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU Will Be Made on TSMC 6nm Process,... by gumby on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:11AM (#23976605)

This is absurd. Intel’s fab capacity is several times TSMC’s so even if intel had chosen to do this there is no way TSMC would be able to satisfy Intel’s needs. In addition most of TSMC’s capacity has already been committed.

That’s the business side; ignore the technical errors like 3 nm.

There’s already a comment saying this is market manipulation; I just wanted to point out the logical fallacy to avoid “is no” — “is so”.

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Re:Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU Will Be Made on TSMC 6nm Process,... by paulmd on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:42AM (#23976922)

Intel already confirmed on their earnings call that Ponte Vecchio will be based on "external process technologies", so while yes, 6nm is (probably) an error, Intel is 100% certainly running their GPUs on TSMC.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/313222-intel-amd-repor...

They're not moving everything to TSMC, just this specific line of products - which is a new line and would have required additional fab capacity somewhere. That's either 14nm (completely full), 10nm (massively low yields on something this big), or outside the company.

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