As AMD is ramping up manufacturing of its next-generation CPUs and GPUs, it’s set to develop into the second largest shopper of TSMC’s N5 (5nm-class) manufacturing node platform within the second half of 2022, in response to a DigiTimes report. However will it develop into the foundry’s second largest buyer total? In that case, it might be behind Apple, however forward of MediaTek.
AMD is about to launch a a number of new merchandise made utilizing varied nodes that belong to TSMC’s N5 household. First up, subsequent month the corporate will launch its long-awaited Ryzen 7000-series processors for desktops based mostly on its Zen 4 microarchitecture. Later this 12 months, the agency will begin ramping manufacturing of its 4th Era EPYC processors codenamed Genoa that includes the identical Zen 4 microarchitecture. Additionally, later this 12 months AMD plans to launch its Radeon RX 7000-series graphics processors that includes its RDNA 3 structure. Whereas ramp up of datacenter-oriented EPYC might be pretty sluggish, client-oriented Ryzen and Radeon ought to ramp comparatively shortly, so AMD can have a number of high-volume N5 chips in manufacturing by the tip of the 12 months.
