At the current quarterly reporting conference, the head of NVIDIA behaved with restraint. It was felt that he seemed to be saving energy for today's speech at the GTC 2017, where new products can be announced or demonstrated. Accordingly, the quarterly event did not generate as many news events as usual.
The head of NVIDIA in response to one of the questions touched on the so-called "Moore's Law", which in its former form does not work anymore. Further increase in computing performance, according to the founder of the company, of course, is impossible without the active use of accelerators based on graphics processors. You can not rely solely on improvements in process technology. That's why, as the CEO of NVIDIA notes, the company prefers not the newest technical processes, but the best one. Apparently, here a reference is made to the use of 16-nm technology in the performance of TSMC for the release of graphics solutions Pascal, whereas AMD already uses 14-nm technology. By the way, the younger representative of the Pascal family (GP107) is released on the 14-nm process technology, so the NVIDIA management's applications need to be "filtered" for excessive categorization.
In general, as the head of NVIDIA continues, lithographic technologies are just one of dozens of tools that the company uses to create more progressive products. Yes, they are important for the company, but they are not the determining factor in progress. The results of cooperation with TSMC in the company are very satisfied.
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