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TSMC is getting help from customer Nvidia in lithography. The “cuLitho” software and hardware is moving expensive operations to Nvidia GPUs, which will help TS
by anthomtb 3y ago
TSMC is getting help from customer Nvidia in lithography.
The “cuLitho” software and hardware is moving expensive operations to Nvidia GPUs, which will help TSMC deploy inverse lithography and deeper learning, according to C.C. Wei.
This jumped out as interesting to me. How would this relationship work? Is it like, "hey Nvidia, send us a few of those shiny GPU's and some engineers and we'll knock a few bucks off your wafer price"? Or more like, there is a division at TSMC that uses GPU's for process improvements, and they choose their vendor independent of any customer relationships?
- Keyframe 3y agoIt cuts deeper. Morris Chang is a hero of Jen-Hsun Huang and relationship goes way deeper than customer-vendor relationship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-x7PdnvCyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-x7PdnvCyI
- Lramseyer 3y agoProbably some Physical Design engineers who looked at the problem, and realized that it was a complex geometry problem that could be sped up buy parallelized computing. So they called up Synopsys (probably not TSMC) and were like "can you port this to CUDA?" The reason NVIDIA is taking credit for it is because Synopsys isn't know for its ability to deliver great software, and the folks at NVIDIA realistically probably wrote it.