The irony is if anything happens to TSMC, nVidia is a junk company because all of their products are dependent on TSMC manufacturing them. nVidia hasn't even designed their architectures around alternative manufacturing technologies from competitors, meaning it would takes years for them to adapt to TSMC being inaccessible.
This is an important consideration because as China's economy and government grow more and more desperate, Taiwan is less and less secure. Obviously this is all terrible and nVidia isn't the only company affected but they are the most valuable company affected and are among the only companies that are absolutely 100% dependent on TSMC as it manufactures the vast majority of their products outside of some SoC's.
um literally the previous gen ampere was on samsung so what do you mean hasnt designed architectures around alternate manufacturing technologies from competitors
wasnt there an iphone gen that used both tsmc and samsung? how can you be so sure it takes years to switch fabs, you're not a chip maker/designer
Wow! NV is using computers to help with lithography?! Amazing! Thank goodness they finally figured that out and aren't making integrated circuit mockups on chains of perforated tractor-feed dot matrix printer paper taped together and spread out onto office floors. NV engineers can finally turn their desk fans on without risking displacement of critical product designs. Maybe next year they can get central air conditioning or something. The future is now!
The problem here is the AI part. In a normal algorithmic solution, if there's an error, you can trace it back and fix it. With AI no such thing is possible easily as the link between algorithm and result is not straight forward.
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ballsystemlord - Monday, March 18, 2024 - link
I'm kinda surprised that TSMC didn't use OpenCL or CUDA to accelerate these computations before now.GeoffreyA - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
Semiconductor manufacturing becoming dependent on Nvidia is bad. This cunning company is entwining itself in every corner of the earth.Samus - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
The irony is if anything happens to TSMC, nVidia is a junk company because all of their products are dependent on TSMC manufacturing them. nVidia hasn't even designed their architectures around alternative manufacturing technologies from competitors, meaning it would takes years for them to adapt to TSMC being inaccessible.This is an important consideration because as China's economy and government grow more and more desperate, Taiwan is less and less secure. Obviously this is all terrible and nVidia isn't the only company affected but they are the most valuable company affected and are among the only companies that are absolutely 100% dependent on TSMC as it manufactures the vast majority of their products outside of some SoC's.
André - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
Apple is TSMCs biggest customer hands down as well as being the "most valuable".kn00tcn - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
um literally the previous gen ampere was on samsung so what do you mean hasnt designed architectures around alternate manufacturing technologies from competitorswasnt there an iphone gen that used both tsmc and samsung? how can you be so sure it takes years to switch fabs, you're not a chip maker/designer
Dante Verizon - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
Because the chip development cycle is really long...hazmond - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
Nvidiia 30 series graphics card uses Samsung 8nmkn00tcn - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
still not as much as MSGeoffreyA - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
Agreed. It's not good.ballsystemlord - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
Good point. I had thought that TSMC used AI as an optional part of it's processes, but perhaps not.GeoffreyA - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
Possibly, their software has been of the older, tried-and-tested sort.PeachNCream - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
Wow! NV is using computers to help with lithography?! Amazing! Thank goodness they finally figured that out and aren't making integrated circuit mockups on chains of perforated tractor-feed dot matrix printer paper taped together and spread out onto office floors. NV engineers can finally turn their desk fans on without risking displacement of critical product designs. Maybe next year they can get central air conditioning or something. The future is now!kn00tcn - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
parallel gpus are wildly more efficient than parallel cpus in many tasks, that's what this is about not your delusional narrativeyou are sick, polluting the comments with insane aggressive tirades mocking or slurring users and products constantly, disgusting!
PeachNCream - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
Your joke detector's batteries may require replacement.haplo602 - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
The problem here is the AI part. In a normal algorithmic solution, if there's an error, you can trace it back and fix it. With AI no such thing is possible easily as the link between algorithm and result is not straight forward.ballsystemlord - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
Upvote!Dante Verizon - Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - link
This is not an error-tolerant process, so it makes no sense to use GPUs.