NVIDIA Spends Big Money To Acquire TSMCs 5nm Wafers For Next-Gen GeForce RTX 40 Ada Lovelace GPUs
Summary
NVIDIA has allegedly gone on a huge spending spree to acquire some of TSMCs next-gen 5nm wafer supply for its next-gen GeForce RTX 40 Ada Lovelace GPUs. NVIDIA Goes on TSMC 5nm Spending Spree, Billions of Dollars Paid To Acquire Wafers For GeForce RTX 40 Ada Lovelace GPUs NVIDIAs Ada Lovelace GPUs powering the next-generation GeForce RTX 40 series graphics card lineup are expected to utilize TSMCs 5nm process node. The total long-term Multi-Billion dollar deal is set to cost NVIDIA an insane $6.9 Billion US which is much higher than what they paid last year. NVIDIA will not just use this money to procure wafer supply from TSMC but also from Samsung but it looks like that the majority of the amount will be spent on TSMCs 5nm technology. The NVIDIA AD102 "ADA GPU" appears to have 18432 CUDA Cores based on the preliminary specs (which can change), housed within 144 SM units.