News that TSMC has announced that it will start production of Apple's A14 chip in April, with the intention of launching the first products in September (though with a Coronavirus involved, we'll see …). As mentioned, Samsung and TSMC they take the risk by 5nm Because the mode is not yet fully completed, but they need to first uninstall the chips immediately to meet the requirements set by signed contracts with manufacturers, in this case Apple.
In any case, it should be borne in mind that 5 nm has long been planned to begin production this year, and therefore performs in accordance with the program. It should also be said that everything TSMC News about 5nm
All of this leads us to ask ourselves the question:what happened to AMD from now on?
AMD won't use 5nm until Zen 4
At a conference of analysts held last week, it was announced that Zen 4 investigators would be the first company to use 5nm members, meaning Zen 3 would continue to use the current 7nm, combined with a clear build. mature and high quality.
Lisa Su, CEO of the company, said AMD was excited about the upcoming launch and that the company is now weighing more on the sector than it was five years ago. Good words and predictions, but didn't provide a single detail about the expected architecture.
The Radeon RX 6000 also comes with 7nm
Similarly, during the same conference AMD also spoke about their next generation of graphics cards, RDNA 2 and RDNA 3. They have already said that rDNA 2 will still have this number at 7 nm, and about RDNA 3 they just said they would have – «advanced node», but without showing the nanometers of its lithography.
In addition, in both cases (Zen 4 processors and RDNA 3 graphics) the system is positioning itself for at least two years, at which time we would expect that TSMC and its 5 nm are already beyond growth and in full production.
The question is: if TSMC already has 5nm and already works with them through Apple, Why doesn't AMD wait a bit and introduce Zen 3 and RDNA 2 with it at 5nm instead of 7nm? AMD is probably trying to be careful, choosing a governing body and that is about to give them an even more amazing performance (at the conference they are talking about RDNA 2 is 50% more efficient than RDNA), but above all there is a guaranteed guarantee.
One plausible and controversial reason for this is that maybe AMD was slow in announcing Zen 3 and RDNA 2 at 7nm, and they are no longer in transition. It makes sense, on the other hand. Of course Zen 4 and RDNA 3 AMD have learned the lesson, and do not announce the details until they are 100% closed.