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Originally Posted by bojangles It definitely won't be 45 nm. That's simply TOO MUCH money down the drain, just to move from 55 nm so fast. Honestly going from 65 to 55 nm was not a great idea. There is not that much improvement over those. I think the only reason they're not moving to 45 nm yet was because neither company does not have the technology like Intel does to get down to 45 nm. Graphics cards are so powerful and if they do try to use the same lithography technology they have now on 45 nm, then the power consumption will be rediculous due to extremely high leakage currents. They need to adopt the high-K technology or something else that's out there. But Intel hates nvidia so who knows lol. |
You are aware that neither ATI nor NVIDIA manufacture their own wafers, right?
Both companies outsource production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC).