Samsung looks to win back chip orders for Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs, prioritizing 3nm
Table of Contents
We’re looking forward to Nvidia’s next generation of graphics cards, and it looks like Samsung has big plans to be a part of that, or at least they aim to. They lost out to TSMC when it comes to producing chips integral to the current 40 series, and TSMC has been on top ever since. However, an internal Samsung strategy looks to capitalize on their development of more the efficient 3nm GAA process, with aims to mass produce chips within the first half of 2025.
Samsung Foundry prioritizes 3nm chips
According to a report from Korean news outlet, FN news, Samsung is looking to prioritize orders from Nvidia by mass producing 3nm chips, down from the 5nm process size provided by TSMC that helps power their Ada Lovelace cards, the RTX 40 series. Not just that though, as the recent Hopper and Blackwell families are also using TSMC’s 5nm process, giving Samsung the incentive to double down on 3nm in order to fight off TSMC.
Prime Day may have closed its doors, but that hasn't stopped great deals from landing on the web's biggest online retailer. Here are all the best last chance savings from this year's Prime event.
- Sapphire 11348-03-20G Pulse AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT Was $779 Now $719
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core, 16-Thread Desktop Processor Was $449 Now $341
- Skytech King 95 Gaming PC Desktop, Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz Was $2,899 Now $2,599
- LG 77-Inch Class OLED evo AI 4K C5 Series Smart TV Was $3,696 Now $2,996
- AOC Laptop Computer 16GB RAM 512GB SSD Was $360.99 Now $306.84
- Lexar 2TB NM1090 w/HeatSink SSD PCIe Gen5x4 NVMe M.2 Was $281.97 Now $214.98
- Apple Watch Series 10 GPS + Cellular 42mm case Smartwatch Was $499.99 Now $379.99
- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core, 32-thread unlocked desktop processor Was $3199.99 Now $279.99
- Garmin vívoactive 5, Health and Fitness GPS Smartwatch Was $299.99 Now $190
*Prices and savings subject to change. Click through to get the current prices.
We previously saw Samsung’s 8nm process nodes used for the RTX 30 series, based on Ampere architecture. It seems that ever since Nvidia went on to adopt TSMC’s 5nm process for the RTX 40 series, Samsung has been looking to gain back their partnership with the GPU giant. And the more efficient 3nm is the way to do that. According to a report from Wccftech, Samsung has been pushing this technology as much as possible and has seen some breakthroughs.
Will Nvidia stop using TSMC chips?
We’re yet to know which process node Nvidia will be utilizing on the upcoming RTX 50 series, or beyond. TSMC still has the leading position as of now, but these developments from Samsung could held turn the tide in their favor.
Wccftech reports that Samsung has a strategy in place, codenamed ‘Nemo’, which refers to their effort on receiving orders from Nvidia for these new chips. At the moment, it does seem like there is some time to go until Nvidia makes a full move back to Samsung, and we’re looking forward to the Computex and Hot Chips 2024 to see what’s in store.
About the Author