Friday, April 27th 2018
AMD Teases Its 7 nm Vega Instinct Accelerator - Data-Pushing Silicon Deployed
AMD has announced via its Twitter feed that the Vega die shrink from current 14 nm down to 7 nm has actually coalesced into a hardware product that can be tested and vetted at their labs. Via a teaser image, the company said that "7nm @RadeonInstinct product for machine learning is running in our labs."
Of course, working silicon is only half the battle - considerations such as yields, leakage, and others are all demons that must be worked out for actual production silicon, which may thus be some months off. Only AMD and TSMC themselves themselves know how the actual production run went - and the performance and power efficiency that can be expected from this design (remember that AMD's CEO Lisa SU herself said they'd partner with both TSMC and Globalfoundries for the 7 nm push, though it seems TSMC may be pulling ahead in that field). Considering AMD's timeline for the die-shrunk Vega to 7 nm - with predicted product launch for 2H 2018 - the fact that there is working silicon being sampled right now is definitely good news.
Sources:
AMD Twitter, via Videocardz
Of course, working silicon is only half the battle - considerations such as yields, leakage, and others are all demons that must be worked out for actual production silicon, which may thus be some months off. Only AMD and TSMC themselves themselves know how the actual production run went - and the performance and power efficiency that can be expected from this design (remember that AMD's CEO Lisa SU herself said they'd partner with both TSMC and Globalfoundries for the 7 nm push, though it seems TSMC may be pulling ahead in that field). Considering AMD's timeline for the die-shrunk Vega to 7 nm - with predicted product launch for 2H 2018 - the fact that there is working silicon being sampled right now is definitely good news.
32 Comments on AMD Teases Its 7 nm Vega Instinct Accelerator - Data-Pushing Silicon Deployed
p.s TSMC is ahead of glo-fo
But like Lisa Su said; "is running in our labs and we remain on track to provide samples to customers later this year",
so they don't expect volume shipments this year.
The idea that TSMC make more $ from Nvidia, than AMD, is highly suspect. Apple is the only one that has priority access, for many different reasons.
Yeah right, so there were no Intel, Google, Xilinx who gobbled up tonnes of HBM2 either? Not to mention the volume of consumer Vega is anywhere between 2x-5x the Tesla cards with HBM2, also miners!
EDIT: it's also a render. The real card in their lab probably looks like Frankenstein.
also im a strong believer and i can be wrong, but i believe 11 series will be volta and all the leaked news is fake.