TSMC and GLOBALFOUNDRIES will still be AMD’s main foundry partners, Samsung only won some 14nm orders

News from IT House on January 6th, AMD CEO Lisa Su explained the technical outlook of the future platform at CES 2023, and also brought a variety of new products, continuing to use TSMC’s 7/6/5/4 nanometer process.

According to industry insiders quoted by DigiTimes, TSMC and GlobalFoundries are expected to remain AMD’s main foundry partners by 2025, while Samsung has only received some orders for 14nm APU and GPU products.

According to sources, TSMC has obtained major chip orders for AMD’s next-generation CPU and GPU with the help of 3nm, and has signed a contract with AMD to manufacture the new Radeon RX 7000 series mobile GPU using the 6nm process.

In addition, AMD will continue to manufacture products using GF’s 12nm and beyond process technology. It is reported that at the end of 2021, in order to ensure sufficient supply in the face of chip shortages, AMD has signed a four-year long-term wafer supply contract with GlobalFoundries, with an order value of approximately US$2.1 billion. Samsung seems to have only a small number of 14nm APU and GPU orders.

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AMD is already the largest customer of TSMC’s 7nm process platform consisting of N6. It was previously reported that AMD is expected to become the second largest customer of TSMC’s 5nm process platform in the second half of 2022.

IT Home learned that AMD’s just-launched Ryzen 7045HX series processors use TSMC’s 5nm process, and it is expected that ASUS, Lenovo and Alienware will launch the first batch of products in February. In addition, AMD also launched the Ryzen 7040 series processors using TSMC’s 4nm process, and the 7nm-based Ryzen 7035/7030 series processors.