NVIDIA and TSMC Celebrate Milestone: 500 Million Processors
NVIDIA Corporation and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Inc. today celebrated the shipment of the 500 millionth processor designed by NVIDIA and manufactured by TSMC. These processors–which include NVIDIA GeForce GPUs (graphics processing units) and NVIDIA nForce MCPs (media and communications processors)–were created on 2.6 million eight-inch equivalent wafers.
NVIDIA and TSMC began high-volume production in 1998 when NVIDIA was developing processors on the 0.35 micron technology node. Today, NVIDIA leverages TSMC’s process technology leadership and is producing processors on the 65nm node in state-of-the-art 300mm fabs. “Graphics processors are having an increasingly profound effect on society in computing, consumer electronics, mobile devices, and automobiles. The GPU has become one of the largest semiconductor market segments and has made NVIDIA one of the fastest growing technology companies in history,” commented Dr. Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research, a market research and consulting company specializing in graphics, multimedia and consumer electronics.
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