Next graphics cards NVIDIA Blackwell – although far from the world of video games – are crucial for the American brand.
Just a few weeks ago, we were talking about a privileged position between Apple and TSMC, the former having reserved almost all of the latter’s most high-end production capacities.
Engraved via TSMC’s N3 process – therefore in 3 nm – the M3 processors on one side and A17 Bionic on the other are indeed the stars at TSMC, but other companies should quickly benefit from 3 nm, NVIDIA in particular.
Objective: end of 2024
Reported by DigiTimes and relayed by Wccftechthe information concerns the next generation of graphics chips imagined by Jen-Hsun Huang’s company, Blackwell GPUs.
You will have understood, there is no question of the next GeForce, the B100 series of these Blackwell processors must indeed come to boost artificial intelligence computers. This market is particularly buoyant for NVIDIA and we understand that the company is working hard to have enough parts.
According to DigiTimesNVIDIA would therefore have negotiated with TSMC so that the N3 process would be accessible to it as quickly as possible: we are talking about a release of the B100 chips during the fourth quarter of 2024.
Blackell: a GPU for artificial intelligence
Designed to boost artificial intelligence, the Blackwell generation is of great importance to NVIDIA for another reason. Indeed, it is a GPU designed on the chiplet design, a first for the American firm.
Opposed to the monolithic design still in force on Ada Lovelace (the GeForce RTX 4000), the chiplet design aims to combine cores of significantly different nature and characteristics in order to have more versatile chips and a more easily adjustable offering. With its Ryzen and its RDNA3, AMD is already well underway in this direction and Intel is getting started with Meteor Lake, the release of which is now imminent.
For NVIDIA, this is therefore a first on many levels and we understand that the company was keen to strengthen the agreement linking it to TSMC. An agreement which would therefore have been “etched in stone” if we are to believe DigiTimes : it should allow NVIDIA to maintain – or even increase – its position in AI computers, a market in which it controls almost 80%.
We can undoubtedly imagine that this partnership between the two groups will also have repercussions when launching the GeForce RTX 5000… but we are clearly not there yet.
Sources: DigiTimes, Wccftech
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