2023-05-02 11:05:00
Faced with TSMC’s inability to produce enough Phoenix processors (Ryzen 7040) in time, AMD would have called on Samsung for help. The information is questionable, but there is one certainty on the other hand: faced with the Raptor Lake and with the mobile Meteor Lake looming, AMD must be able to put its Ryzen 7040 APUs on the market without further delay.
This is information to be taken with a grain of salt, but AMD has decided to entrust part of its 4nm CPU production to Samsung. This is what the leaker OreXda reports in a Tweet, without further details on this subject.
The context lends some credence to the assertion of the leaker. At the start of the year, AMD presented a very extensive range of Ryzen 7000 mobiles. It combines four CPU architectures, three GPU architectures, and above all four different engraving finenesses (4 nm, 5 nm, 6 nm and 7 nm); the production of these processors was entrusted to TSMC.
Unfortunately for AMD, the core range of this generation, the Ryzen 7040 Phoenix, engraved in 4 nm, are late: the first PCs equipped with these chips, initially planned for March, have been officially postponed to April. It’s now early May, and computers armed with Ryzen 7040 are still a long way off. However, for AMD, time is running out: according to the first tests, these Ryzen Phoenix are excellent competitors against the Core Raptor Lake, but the situation looks more complicated in the coming months with the arrival of the Meteor Lake generation, which is quite promising on paper. We will of course have to see what these chips are really worth before drawing conclusions, but in any case, as you can imagine, AMD cannot afford to wait and see on a market as buoyant as that of portable PCs.
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Apple and Qualcomm priority?
The delay of the Ryzen 7040 Phoenix suggests that TSMC’s 4nm lines are working at full capacity and that the Taiwanese foundry is unable to fill orders on time (TSMC also engraves in 4nm for other customers , such as Apple and Qualcomm). To circumvent this problem, and still according to information from OreXda, AMD would therefore have entrusted part of the production to Samsung Foundry; adapting the design to the Korean founder’s 4nm class nodes is reportedly underway.
Source : OreXda via WCCFTech
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