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    Intel to tackle Nvidia, AMD in graphics chips with TSMC deal

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    Intel plans to tap Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) to make a second generation discrete graphics chip for PCs that it hopes will help it combat the rise of Nvidia, two sources familiar with the matter said.

    The chip, known as “DG2”, will be made on a new chip-making process at TSMC that has not yet been formally named but is an enhanced version of its 7-nanometre process, the two people familiar the matter said.

    Intel, long the world leader in chip-making technology, has lost its manufacturing edge in recent years and is now debating whether to outsource some of it flagship CPUs, slated for release in 2023.

    Its DG2 chip is expected to be released late this year or in early 2022 and compete with Nvidia and AMD gaming chips

    Activist investor Third Point last month sent Intel’s board a letter asking it to consider whether to keep its chip design and manufacturing operations under one roof.

    Intel has long outsourced chips other than its flagship CPUs and is a major customer of TSMC, the world’s leading contract chip manufacturer. The head of Intel’s self-driving subsidiary Mobileye last month said its next autonomous vehicle processor will be continue to be manufactured by TSMC on its 7nm process.

    With its graphics chips, Intel is looking to tap into the booming PC gaming market. Its DG2 chip is expected to be released late this year or in early 2022 and compete with Nvidia and AMD gaming chips that cost between US$400 and $600, the sources said.

    More advanced

    The chip manufacturing technology for the DG2 is expected to be more advanced than the Samsung Electronics 8nm process used in Nvidia’s most recent round of graphics chips released in the fall, the people said. They added it would also have a leg up on the AMD graphics chips made on TSMC’s 7nm process.

    Intel declined to comment and TSMC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Intel officials last year said that it would outsource the DG2 chip but did not say which chip manufacturer had won the business or which chipmaking process it would use.  — Reported by Stephen Nellis, (c) 2020 Reuters



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