NVIDIA Company traditionally for the production of its video chips use the Taiwan company TSMC; however, additional orders are placed at UMC. Furthermore, NVIDIA has some collaboration experience with IBM in this sphere.
The prepared for announcement video card geForce 8800 GT on base of 65 nm g92 chip by NVIDIA company will be released by UMC, but the basic chips volume is produced BY TSMC. To UMC company will be assigned the release from five to six thousand silicic plates with 300 mm diameter , and this allow NVIDIA to consider UMC as the most important client in this season.
NVIDIA use UMC company services due to the increased demand and also the desire to present products on the base Of g92 in advance to initial graph - the announcement of video card geForce 8800 GT with 256 mb and 512 mb GDDR- 3 memory will take place on 29 October. The use of UMC will allow the production of g92 chip to be put on the market immediately after the announcement without visible limitations in quantities.
As reports associate, the g92 video chip has the packing dimensions 37,5 X 37,5 mm, whereas the g80 video chip in video cards GeForce 8800 GTS has the packing dimensions 42,5 X 42,5 mm. , it is possible to observe the packing sizes decrease and core area by more than to 20%.
Since g92 chip is produced on 65 nm technical process, the supply voltage is lowered to 1.05-1.1 v. The energy consumption level of video card geForce 8800 GT will be acceptable. According to some data, TDP in video card geForce 8800 GT will not exceed 110 W.