It is said that Intel will adopt TSMC 6nm EUV process next year

Although in the semiconductor manufacturing process , Intel has always been very strong , Homemade PC And server chips are produced by ourselves . however , This does not mean that all Intel chips are made by themselves . As early as a few years ago, Intel targeted the mobile market SoFIA The series chips are manufactured by TSMC , In particular, TSMC has formed an anti super for Intel in the manufacturing process . TSMC's in the first half of this year 5nm Mass production , And Intel's 7nm The craft will wait until 2021 Mass production will take place at the end of the year , At that time, TSMC's 3nm The process may have been mass produced .

In this context , There have been rumors , Intel will outsource more chips to TSMC for production . In recent days, , Industry insiders @ Master of mobile chip Explosive charge ,Intel It's expected to be in 2021 Large scale use of TSMC in 6nm EUV process , At present, light masks are being made （Mask）. And in 2022 year Intel It will further use TSMC 3nm Process foundry .

According to the report , Intel 2021 TSMC began to use in 6nm EUV The products of the technology are mainly self-developed by Intel GPU And chipsets . because GPU relative CPU Manufacturing is simpler , And TSMC is GPU Very experienced in manufacturing .

According to the previously exposed information , Intel self-developed Xe Architecture alone DG1 Use your own 10nm Process manufacturing , Listed at the end of this year , Have 96 Group EU execution unit , Is the total 768 Core , Base frequency 1GHz, Acceleration frequency 1.5GHz,1MB L2 cache and 3GB memory ,TDP by 25W.

expect DG1 Performance and GTX950 Quite a , Than GTX 1050 It's worse 15% about , The overall positioning is not high , Suitable for the field of high energy efficiency , Especially notebooks GPU.DG1 And then there will be DG2 Showing a , This is a high-performance CPU 了 , It was revealed before DG2 Will use the power on stage 7nm process , Now it should be TSMC 6nm EUV The craft is . however 2021 year Intel Their own 7nm The process will also be mass-produced , Officials have already announced the use of Ponte Vecchio The accelerator card will use its own 7nm EUV process .

It is worth noting that , As Intel outsources more chips to TSMC , It will further occupy the production capacity of TSMC's advanced process , Plus apples 、 Huawei Hisilicon 、AMD、 Zhan Rui （ Zhanrui new 5G SoC TSMC has been confirmed 6nm EUV process ） Waiting for customers , expect 2021 In, the production capacity of TSMC's advanced manufacturing process will be very tight .

edit ： Smart core - Woods