China's First 7nm GPU Nears Mass Production, Pics Emerge

Purgatory · 3 Apr 2021 at 01:36

https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/china-first-7nm-gpu-heads-to-production

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Shanghai Tianshu Intellectual Semiconductor Co. (Tianshu Zhixin) announced Wednesday that it's nearing "mass production and commercial delivery" of Big Island, China's first domestically produced 7nm general-purpose GPU (GPGPU).

(Image credit: Tianshu Zhixin)

Dg834man · 3 Apr 2021 at 02:10

but can it run crysis? joking aside this a compute card or a graphics card?

Purgatory · 3 Apr 2021 at 02:11

Dg834man said:
but can it run crysis? joking aside this a compute card or a graphics card?

Graphics versions and compute it seems but the article states general-purpose GPU. Seems china want to make their own GPUS now and probably to supply the miners.

Jacky60 · 3 Apr 2021 at 06:32

I hope they sell gazillions and bring some healthy competition to the GPU market. The duopoly having been sitting pretty with the entire market to themselves for far too long and both need a good hard kick up the backside.

chaparral · 3 Apr 2021 at 06:42

I really hope this is true and it gives AMD & Nvidia prices a major kicking

As i can see the latest GPU prices really killing off PC gaming as even i myself is not willing to carry on paying £1000 or more for just a GPU

But this was also posted very close to April 1st mmmmmmmmmmm

Robi_uk · 3 Apr 2021 at 07:00

What are the 3rd and 4th Pics? Some massive heatsinks on top of processors?

Rroff · 3 Apr 2021 at 07:25

Robi_uk said:
What are the 3rd and 4th Pics? Some massive heatsinks on top of processors?

They are compute oriented GPU boards designed to go in server rack chassis and cooled by the chassis airflow.

CuriousTomCat · 3 Apr 2021 at 07:37

I wonder if TSMC or Samsung got the contract.

Competition is good but it won't last long if people use it just to get a more competitive Nvidia card.

Dontrocktheboat · 3 Apr 2021 at 08:16

looks fake to me

muon · 3 Apr 2021 at 08:57

Well if its using TSMC 7nm, it's gonna be vaporware.

Joxeon · 3 Apr 2021 at 09:05

Jacky60 said:
I hope they sell gazillions and bring some healthy competition to the GPU market. The duopoly having been sitting pretty with the entire market to themselves for far too long and both need a good hard kick up the backside.

Yeah the industry certainly does need it. Chinese phones are pretty decent and sell at less than 1/3 the price of Apple so let's hope something similar happens in the GPU market although I think it would be a while before it effects the high end but may shake up the budget segment which badly needs it right now.

KompuKare · 3 Apr 2021 at 09:58

CuriousTomCat said:
I wonder if TSMC or Samsung got the contract.

Competition is good but it won't last long if people use it just to get a more competitive Nvidia card.

Wasn't that the raison d'être of AMD for years according to the I-only-buy-Nvidia crowd?

I've lost count of the amount of times I've read the lament "if only AMD competed at the high-end" which on closer examination turned to mean "if only AMD completed at the high-end, and forced down Nvidia's prices so I can buy an Nvidia card cheaper".

Pretty sure the article says TSMC which won't do anything for wafers. 7nm wafers prices also remain very high, so while we don't know the full details an example 300mm² die is still going to cost them around $100 from TSMC making it hard to be disruptive with pricing unless they've got a design which performs far better than the die size would indicate.

Grim5 · 3 Apr 2021 at 10:27

Who's tech did they steal? I know they aren't creative enough to make this without someone else's IP

Phreaky · 3 Apr 2021 at 10:29

Wonder who's architecture/design they stole for this then. Anyone reported getting hacked recently?

Edit: Timing

muon · 3 Apr 2021 at 11:00

Grim5 said:
Who's tech did they steal? I know they aren't creative enough to make this without someone else's IP

It's likely just rubbish.

fs123 · 3 Apr 2021 at 11:03

A bit late for Aprils Fool isn't it?

GAC · 3 Apr 2021 at 11:42

and will have spyware baked in to the hardware no doubt.

slim01 · 3 Apr 2021 at 12:04

Purgatory said:
Graphics versions and compute it seems but the article states general-purpose GPU. Seems china want to make their own GPUS now and probably to supply the miners.

If they make cards good for miners and not gamers (therefore sorting out this ****storm) I will be super happy. Come on China

slim01 · 3 Apr 2021 at 12:05

Phreaky said:
Wonder who's architecture/design they stole for this then. Anyone reported getting hacked recently?

Edit: Timing

They've been stealing stuff for years I'm honestly surprised they haven't been making gpus and cpus for years. Pretty hard tech to copy but they have a way of figuring out all the secrets

varkanoid · 3 Apr 2021 at 12:15

Lets not forget the fake GTX 1060, GTX 970, GTX etc that flooded a well known website when they turned out to be GTS 450's etc.
Its a rather vague article doesnt really tell you much other than they look like compute cards and not as they say for general purpose.
They will just be for the Chinese market anyway.