AMD CEO plans to negotiate 2nm and 3nm chips supply with TSMC soon

Something to look forward to: With the new Ryzen 7000 series processors hitting store shelves, with RDNA 3 right behind them, AMD has fully adopted 5nm processors for its products. However, the company does not plan to stay at 5 nm for long. The Red team plans to meet with TSMC to negotiate future 2nm and 3nm chip supplies.

Recently, AMD a statement The new Ryzen 7000 series processors and the upcoming RDNA 3 graphics architecture. Team Red significantly downsizes the process node to an impressive 5nm, compared to the 7nm found in the last two generations of Ryzen and the first two generations of RDNA. These cuts allow more performance to be packed into a single chip.

Boost clocks for AMD’s new flagship Ryzen 9 7950X can reach 5.7 GHz, compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X’s 4.9 GHz. RDNA’s roadmap claims that 5nm processors can increase performance per watt by more than 50 percent.

Despite these significant performance improvements, AMD does not intend to continue with the 5nm process for long. DigiTimes notes that CEO Lisa Su and other executives are planning this Meets With several companies across Taiwan over the next few months. One of the companies they plan to meet with is TSMC, which produces chips for AMD.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is one of the leading developers of processors and semiconductors for computers, producing process chips for many popular technology brands such as Apple, Nvidia and AMD. Team Red’s relationship with TSMC has been very healthy since moving chip production from GlobalFoundries to TSMC in 2018.

Lisa Su intends to meet with TSMC to negotiate production plans for process chips with 3nm and even 2nm nodes, the latter of which is still in the testing stages at TSMC. The company plans to release the Zen 4 chassis in 2024, and some should have a 3nm process node.

Mass production of the 2-nm process nodes will not begin until 2025 at the earliest, according to TSMC forecasts. This timeline aligns with the beginning of the end of AMD’s planned support for the AM5 socket in “2025+”. Whether 2nm processors arrive late in the life of the AM5, or are likely to break the seal on a new AM6 socket, clearly remains to be seen.