The 7-nanometer chip production has launched in high volume – it’s going to be essential in the PlayStation 5‘s specifications!
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (we’ll shorten it to TSMC from this point!) started making these chips in „high volume” – it means someone probably ordered them. That company could be Sony – TSMC‘s president, C. C. Wei said the following during a financial earnings call: „More than 50 products tape-outs has been planned by the end of this year from applications across mobile, server CPU, network processor, gaming, GPU, PGA, cryptocurrency, automotive and AI. Our 7nm is already in volume production.” Notice that Wei said „gaming!”
Previously, we wrote that the PlayStation 5 could use AMD’s Navi APU (Advanced Processing Unit) and Zen 2 CPU, and both of them use 7nm chips. It’s hard to not connect the two dots, and if TSMC makes enough for Sony, they could start manufacturing the console, too.
The PlayStation 5 could launch in 2020, but even 2019 doesn’t look that farfetched either…
Source: PSU
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