The use of memory type HBM2 by all the relevant flagship graphics processors has led to the fact that the main infringers of commercial secrets of their developers in this season are the memory manufacturers. For example, it cost Samsung to admit that it increases in the second half the volume of HBM2 memory chips release , as we first learned by our own channels that it is Samsung that supplies AMD with memory for Vega graphics processors, and then the NVIDIA head admitted that at the stage of preparation for the announcement Accelerators of calculations Volta to cooperate it was necessary with Samsung.
As it turns out, TSMC is also able to share information that gives an idea of the future plans of NVIDIA. DigiTimes website with reference to the publication in the Chinese edition of Commercial Times reported that in the fourth quarter volumes of 12-nm products will be increased using FinFET. Chinese sources explained that it will be based on the 12-nm process technology that will be used to produce NVIDIA Volta graphics processors and Xavier processors. However, such a correspondence has not been a secret for a long time, and only information on TSMC's intentions to increase the output volume of profile products of NVIDIA is important here. The head of the last of the company last week assured that Volta's accelerators are available in bulk quantities.
With such a schedule for increasing the production volume , new items may appear on the market not earlier than the beginning of 2018.