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Re:Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil by jrk on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:18AM (#45640167)
It is a few generations behind: Blackwell is still on N4, which is an N5 variant. Meanwhile TSMC has been shipping N3 family processes in large volume products (Apple) for more than 2 years already, and is starting to ramp the next major node family (N2) for Apple et al. next year.

NVIDIA has often lagged on process, since they drive such large dies, but having the first major project demo wafer on N4 now is literally 2 generations behind Taiwan.

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Re:Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil by AlotOfReading on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:33AM (#45640375)
It's a couple process generations behind, but Blackwell is literally nvidia's most current generation. They don't ship N3 until the next generation.

When was the last time current gen, competitive GPUs were fabbed outside Asia?

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Re:Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil by rsynnott on Monday October 20, 2025 @09:13AM (#45643516)
Can't be _that_ long ago; AMD were still using GlobalFoundries (Germany and New York) for most stuff until 2018 or so IIRC.
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Re:Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil by AlotOfReading on Monday October 20, 2025 @09:41AM (#45643810)
Forgot about AMD's brief GPU flirtation with glofo. ATI used TSMC. I think it was only Polaris that ever shipped anything from NY. That's admittedly a couple of legendary value cards though.
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