Annual NVIDIA report mentioned Samsung as one of the contractors. Meanwhile, there is no details about the official cooperation of companies . Only Korean media regularly informed about the negotiations between the companies about the possibility of release of NVIDIA graphics solutions using a 14-nm process technology at the facilities of Samsung.
Business Korea indicates the failure of Samsung to receive orders from NVIDIA on the issue of Pascal generation graphics solutions. Total volume of orders will get TSMC, which will use 16 nm process using FinFET-structures. On one hand, the presence of one contractor allows NVIDIA to save on adapting products to different versions of the process technology. On the other hand, NVIDIA is becoming hostage to the success or failure of TSMC - if the level of product yield is low, a second supplier of GPU in this case is not rescued.
According to rumors, NVIDIA did not want to mess with Samsung because of the lack of a significant, compared to TSMC, experience. At the same time the South Korean company can not be considered a lagging - in fact, the release of 14-nm products it has developed ahead of other.