Samsung to make Nvidia’s latest gaming chips in stepped-up foundry business
Jeong-Soo Hwang
Sep 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
Samsung Electronics Co. will manufacture Nvidia Corp.’s latest gaming chips as the South Korean tech giant aims to expand its presence in the foundry business.
Unveiling a series of powerful gaming chips it designed, the Santa Clara, California-based company said its next-generation graphic processing unit (GPU), the GeForce RTX30 series, will be produced by Samsung’s 8-nanometer chipmaking process node.
Nvidia has long worked with a variety of chips manufacturers to fabricate its devices, and more recently has mostly relied on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) for its advanced chips.
Nvidia said it is working with Samsung to customize the process so that the new chips will be about 10% faster than other Samsung-made chips manufactured with the same 8nm process.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said the new chips will improve video game graphics with twice the performance and nearly twice the power efficiency of previous versions.