TSMC Says 40nm Issues are Resolved

[topgear]

Bring on the production lines for more GPUs!


Have you noticed any improvement in supplies of the ATI Radeon 5800-series of video cards? That's likely due to the increasing yield of 40nm production at fabrication house Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).


Mark Liu, Senior VP of Operations at TSMC, said that the chamber matching problems that had impacted yield rates for the company's 40nm node have been resolved, according to Digitimes.


Now TSMC's yield for 40nm product is at the same level as its 65nm product, signaling clear skies. This should be positive news for Nvidia, as its Fermi product is expected to utilize the 40nm process.

*www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-40nm-radeon-fermi-gpu,9479.html

*www.digitimes.com/news/a20100120PD204.html

 

[Krow]

Great news that is. Now we can expect a lot more 58xx cards in showoff threads.

 

[topgear]

^^ Yup and we can expect to get the new fermi gfx cards at a lower launching price and ati/amd will reduce their current gfx cards prices too