Nvidia Pascal hype thread

[Orangey]

We have a Fiji one and I need a place to dump TSMC news & various bits.

Let's kick things off with some good old false hope

http://fudzilla.net/news/processors/37579-tsmc-will-have-10nm-fab-by-middle-of-next-year

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will break ground for a new fab at its 12-inch wafer plant in central Taiwan in June.

TSMC chairman Morris Chang said that the fab is designed to manufacture chips using 10nm process technology and volume production at the new facility of Fab 15 will start in mid-2016.

10nm in mid-2016? If so this would allow NV to leapfrog AMD, who by all accounts are leaning towards Global Foundries' 14nm in 2016. Even more startling, they would also leapfrog INTEL, afaik this would be a major shakeup as to my knowledge Intel have always been out in front. This would explain why NV do not appear to have much invested in 16nm despite being on the list of early adopters. A lot of people were not expecting Pascal until H2 2016, if 10nm really is available middle of next year then that would give Apple et al first dibs for a few months just as with 20nm, allowing Pascal to jump two nodes. Imagine how many transistors that would be.

Is the phrase "when it rains it pours" appropriate for 2 node shrinks in the space of 6 months?

 

[snips86x]

Don't we already have one of these?

 

[andybird123]

If they are beginning construction in June this year, I very much doubt it will be fully operational and building out big high spec GPU parts by the end of next year, certainly not in time for a late 2016 release date, maybe early to mid 2017 at the earliest I suspect

 

[africanos23]

Wccftech will be on this day in day out , providing "facts" and "as we have already exclusively mentioned" (after the 390x and GTX980Ti launch)

 

[Freddie1980]

That just means Apple will be getting their new iPhone SoC in 2016, for performance parts will have to wait a lot longer (it's nearly mid 2015 and we are still stuck on 28nm for video cards, if anyone expect to see 10nm top tier performance graphics cards by 2017 is being highly optimistic).