tsmc 55nm chips

Hardly for someone is the secret of the the fact that graphical solution AMD and NVIDIA following 65 nm technical process will master 55 nm technical process, and release the corresponding chips there will be Taiwan company TSMC. Yesterday the site EE times told about the nearest plans of TSMC on the mastery 55 nm technical process.
The prototypes of 55 nm chips TSMC will be able to propose to its clients already during May of this year. The representatives of company declare, that the passage on 55 nm technical process to 90% is linear compression, but therefore he does not require essential retuning or modernization of equipment, material and temporary expenditures. Customers after passage on 55 nm technical process can decrease the area core of their chips, and the level of energy consumption with the constant frequencies will be lowered by 10-20%. It is possible to be ordered otherwise by however, this gain: to endow by heat emission for a increase in the frequencies.

It is assumed that one the first clients TSMC, who mastered 55 nm technical process, will become the company AMD with its mobile video chips m8x, which support DirectX 10.1, which will leave at the beginning of the following year. Subsequently can appear desktop 55 nm video chip r700, and also its cheaper version. It is possible to assume that also NVIDIA will release in first half of 2008 their 55 nm video chip. There will be this flag G100, or later product, time will show. The chip g100 must bring the support Of directX 10.1 and Shader model 4.1.

In the opinion of sources from the number of motherboard producers , on whom refers the site digiTimes, company NVIDIA can become the first client TSMC, which ordered the production 55 nm chips. Models will be accessible in the second-half of 2007, and series production will be expanded in the first quarter of 2008. AMD is not assembled to lag behind NVIDIA, as these sources report, and also prepare 55 nm products.

TSMC 55nm chips

TSMC 55NM CHIPS