TSMC and Nvidia ship one-billionth GPU

Fudzilla ^ | Thursday, 13 January 2011 11:01 | Peter Scott

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Twelve years of cooperation

Chipmaker for hire TSMC and Nvidia have announced the shipment of the one-billionth Geforce graphics core.

In a collaboration spanning three decades, the two outfits have gone through several GPU generations and manufacturing nodes, starting with the ancient 250nm Riva cores. Currently TSMC produces 40nm parts designed by Nvidia and the 28nm node should come on line later this year.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang noted that the complexity of Nvidia’s GPUs has increased by more than one thousand times since the start of the partnership.

TSMC CEO Morris Chang cited the success as a prime example of successful cooperation between foundries and fables companies.

 

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I believe last sentence has a typo...

TSMC CEO Morris Chang cited the success as a prime example of successful cooperation between foundries and fabless companies.

[JRandomFreeper]

One for every 6 people on the face of the earth? That's pretty cool what humans can accomplish.

/johnny

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am guessing this does not include the Tegra2 processor build on the ARM Architecture and appearing in many Tablets just now coming to market.

They could double the total output in a few years with the flood of mobile devices that is coming.

[rahbert]

makes sense to me. Fabless is a perfectly legit word, at least in silicon valley.

[arderkrag]

Awesome. Nvidia has long been the go-to group for graphics chipsets.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And see this thread:

Chips Makers Target Everything But Kitchen Sink WSJ ^ | 01/04/11

[antiRepublicrat]

Nope, it's right. Nvidia doesn't fabricate chips, so it is fabless. ARM is the same way. As far as the number though, that would include hundreds of millions of GPUs currently sitting in landfills. I don't think anybody uses a RIVA TNT anymore.