Nvidia Maxwell GM200 Titan II/GTX 980 Ti Slipping To 2022

Co-ordinate to a new report TSMC has just completed a $47 meg US dollar deal to buy boosted engineering equipment and machinery. The new equipment should assistance the company bring upcoming manufacturing process technologies closer to market. The visitor expects to begin volume production of 16nm FinFET in late Q2, early Q3 of 2022.

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TSMC had originally scheduled 16nm FinFET mass production for Q1 2022. Mainly to satisfy Apple's A9 fleck demands. However TSMC fell curt of meeting the original schedule and ended upwardly moving volume 16nm production all the fashion to tardily Q2 early on Q3. The company at present seems to be targeting June/July of 2022 for 16nm FinFET. And a quarter or 2 afterward for 16nm FinFET+.

Nvidia Maxwell GM200 Titan Ii/GTX 980 Ti Slipping To 2022

This brings the states to the topic of next generation graphics cards. Namely Nvidia's "big daddy" Maxwell GM200 GPU. Which should go into the GTX 980 Ti/ Titan Two or any other name Nvidia decides to give it. According to earlier reports this GPU was originally scheduled to debut on 28nm old this year with a 16nm shrink in 2022, a leak later reaffirmed past semiaccurate. Reports had u.s. believe that the 28nm GM200 GPU would debut before long after GM204 simply that didn't happen. Nvidia'due south programme for 16nm GPUs was pretty much the aforementioned program for GM204. Which is to introduce the new products in the holiday flavor. The nigh assisting flavour typically in the semiconductor industry and many others.

GM200 isn't the only GPU Nvidia has planned for 16nm either. The company all the same wants to introduce a second revision of GM204 ( GTX 980 and GTX 970 ) in a 16nm flavor. Every bit well every bit another smaller GM206 GPU which was originally rumored to debut alongside GM204. And so we know of at least three Maxwell GPUs which Nvidia is working on. Unfortunately however the delays will put a sizable dent of roughly three-6 months of delay into Nvidia'south 16nm plans. And the plans of any other company which has 16nm products in the works. Making these TSMC 16nm FinFET delays all the more agin.

It typically takes anywhere from four months to a year for a product to make it from mass production to market availability. This leaves a very tight 2-3 calendar month window for 16nm graphics cards to evidence upwards in late 2022. But fifty-fifty then it'due south unlikely that we'll see large fries due to the typically less favorable yields at the early life-span of any new process node. This is not unprecedented equally Nvidia suffered through serious 28nm yield issues in 2022. Which resulted in the company delaying its entire 28nm GPU lineup. And releasing its first 28nm GPU, the GK104 in the GTX 680, three months afterward AMD had released Tahiti in the Hd 7970 and 7950.

Which is why we didn't encounter Nvidia'due south GK110 "big Kepler" GPU bear witness up in a consumer level product until more than five quarters after 28nm went into volume product. That is if you count the one thousand dollar GTX Titan as a consumer production. 28nm went into mass production in October of 2022, the GTX Titan was released in February of 2022. It took Nvidia nearly two years after TSMC began 28nm volume production to innovate its large fleck in a reasonably priced consumer production for the first time. Which was in the form of the GTX 780 in June of last year.

Nvidia GK 104 ( GTX 680/770) vs GK110 (GTX 780/ Ti/ Titan)
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GM200 is Nvidia'south large Maxwell GPU. Similar to how GK110 was Nvidia's large Kepler GPU. And GF100 was that aforementioned class of chip for Fermi. These accept historically been massive 500mm²+ chips. The sort of chips that you don't want to necessarily put into production on a new node with dicey yields.

Co-ordinate to TSMC, the 16nm process should account for 7-9% of total acquirement in Q4 2022 for the visitor. Which means that if any 16nm products get in to market in late 2022 they'll be very limited in quantity. According to Semiaccurate the commencement 16nm GPU from Nvidia will be a die shrink of GM204 (GTX 980 and GTX 970) rather than a new GM200 GPU. Which makes the possibility of a GM200 based production arriving in 2022 fifty-fifty more far fetched.

It's not all bad news all the same, although Nvidia has allegedly decided to skip the 20nm node and go straight to 16nm instead. AMD on the other manus has confirmed that it had chip record outs scheduled for TSMC's 20nm node last yr and said chips are on the way for 2022. With 16nm products planned for 2022 equally well. In the case of AMD 16nm delays shouldn't affect the company's plans for next year. Since they already have 20nm products coming to address the marketplace in 2022.

While Nvidia actually doesn't accept any intermediary products planned between 28nm and 16nm right now. Which should run into the company either fighting it out with 28nm products against AMD's 20nm chips or suffer through some horrific 16nm yields in order to stay competitive. Which isn't entirely out of the question, since Nvidia did suffer through some terrible yields before. When the visitor introduced GF100 (GTX 480) for example back in 2022 to remain competitive.