It appears that Nvidia's upcoming Pascal GPU will be built on TSMC's 16nm FinFET manufacturing process and it will have nothing to do with Samsung.

While it was rumored earlier that Nvidia might tap Samsung's 14nm FinFET manufacturing process for its upcoming Pascal GPU, according to a newest report from Business Korea site, deal between Nvidia and Samsung will not happen.

This leaves Nvidia with TSMC and its 16nm FinFET manufacturing process. In case you missed it before, Nvidia's new Pascal GPU will also feature High Bandwidth Memory 2, with stacked DRAM chips next to the GPU die, similar to AMD's currently available Fiji GPU.

AMD on the other hand might be building its next generation GPUs on 14nm FinFET manufacturing process at GlobalFoundries and might even tap Samsung for a part of its batch.

In any case, next-gen GPU battle between AMD and Nvidia might be even more interesting than we expected.





Source: Techpowerup.com.