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The Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing Co. (TSMC) company declared about its readiness to release logical microcircuits according to the 40 NM standards in spring , and recently this company reported about the transfer of 40 NM standards in the mass production. It is known that the important TSMC customers are AMD and NVIDIA companies. According to some data, the engineering GPU models new generation AMD and NVIDIA can appear before the end of years, and the mass production will start in the next year.
With reference to Taiwan economic news associate confirms that the first graphic processors AMD and NVIDIA, released according to the 40 NM standards will appear in the first quarter 2009.
It is interesting that the new 3d- card from the two most important competitors will use not only processors, prepared by the same producer (TSMC), but also memory, released at the same factory. AMD and NVIDIA stopped their selection at the GDDR5 memory from hynix production , which has the capacity 7 Gbit/s. Specifically, this memory will be paired with AMD RV870 and NVIDIA GT216/206. Related Products :
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