AMD Zen 3 Based Next-Gen Ryzen 4000 ‘Vermeer’ Desktop CPUs To Utilize TSMC’s 5nm Process Node, Launching at CES 2021

[Andrew]

According to the report which has been shared by Chia (Retired Engineer) at Twitter, it looks like AMD will be the lead customer for TSMC's next-generation 5nm+ process node. TSMC had recently entered its 5nm era in April of 2020 and is reportedly commencing mass production in the fourth quarter of 2020.

 

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I had heard this, though I am a little on the fence. Granted AMD are certainly leading the way when it comes to using new nodes with CPU's and GPU's and I am sure they already have some of the 5nm capacity booked in their name with TSMC but re-tooling and moving to a new node is expensive and well AMD have not been on 7nm long and lets face it there is still some optimization to be had out of it (I would have thought). So unless TSMC is really pushing 5nm/ it will be cheaper than 7nm then I am not sure whether this is true or not, seems leaping to 5nm already is jumping the gun. Not complaining but seems very soon and if that is the case then Intel is in some real trouble.