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> AMD might be facing a tough battle The Ryzen 7940HS, which is a pretty good value, is on TSMC 4nm, rumored to already cost close to $20k/wafer. Even if they
by caeril 3y ago
> AMD might be facing a tough battle
The Ryzen 7940HS, which is a pretty good value, is on TSMC 4nm, rumored to already cost close to $20k/wafer.
Even if they double the transistor count, a single SKU should theoretically be cheaper to produce, since you're reducing the footprint by 4. Of course, this is assuming yields don't fall too badly on 2nm (which they probably will, 2nm feels like alien technology at this point).
- ac29 3y agoReminder that those "nm" numbers do not refer to any physical dimension. TSMC N2 is estimated to be something like 30% denser than N4.