This is nothing special. It's been talked repeatedly, and everybody knew it. It sounds like they had "no choice" but to man up and make the statement. Now, what are they going to do about it? And all of a sudden they coincidentally are going to have Samsung making their GPUs on their 14nm? Come on...
 
I'm not saying anything negative to the regards of them switching to Samsung. I'm just implying that they switched to Samsung because they feel that Samsung will be able to pump out the chips faster and quicker than TSMC was able to, thinking they could have saved some money on the production line with TSMC. That's what I think at least. Looks like it didn't work out with TSMC.

Even now price is insane, I refuse to pay 10% improvements after 2 year before AMD launch their product.
This news is only to force people to pay cards before AMD launch their premium model and NVIDIA present new Pascal revision.
Imagine if AMD launch 80% improvements compare to Fury X as high end single graphic card. 
How much was improvement HD7970 to R9-290X, I can't remember at them moment in percent but something huge...
I learned lesson with GTX780 and GTX780Ti.

stalinx20
This is nothing special. It's been talked repeatedly, and everybody knew it. It sounds like they had "no choice" but to man up and make the statement. Now, what are they going to do about it? And all of a sudden they coincidentally are going to have Samsung making their GPUs on their 14nm? Come on...
 
I'm not saying anything negative to the regards of them switching to Samsung. I'm just implying that they switched to Samsung because they feel that Samsung will be able to pump out the chips faster and quicker than TSMC was able to, thinking they could have saved some money on the production line with TSMC. That's what I think at least. Looks like it didn't work out with TSMC.

All about Yield on the wafers = $$$ saved

Brad_Hawthorne
Nvidia should go into politics with that kind of marketing spin. I'm sitting at almost 5 months now in the step up program. Further, I sent in a customer service inquiry a week ago and it fell into a black hole at EVGA.

Time to make a call ?

 
 

Vlada011
Even now price is insane, I refuse to pay 10% improvements after 2 year before AMD launch their product.
This news is only to force people to pay cards before AMD launch their premium model and NVIDIA present new Pascal revision.
Imagine if AMD launch 80% improvements compare to Fury X as high end single graphic card. 
How much was improvement HD7970 to R9-290X, I can't remember at them moment in percent but something huge...
I learned lesson with GTX780 and GTX780Ti.

what pascal revision - the rumor is volta next year ...so no refresh
7nm finfet will be 2018
10nm finfet is 2017 and nvidia is skipping that and using 14nm or 16nm - for volta
 
TSMC Launching 10nm FinFET Process In 2016, 7nm In 2017
http://wccftech.com/tsmc-promises-10nm-production-2016-7nm-2017/ 
 
volume production is 1 year after intial start of fab line
 

deathlokke

Brad_Hawthorne
I'm sitting at almost 5 months now in the step up program.

How? The 1080 has only been out about 3.5 (heheh) months. 

Purchased in April, I processed step up in May and it's already 1/3rd of the way through September.

Xavier Zepherious

stalinx20
 
 
I'm not saying anything negative to the regards of them switching to Samsung. I'm just implying that they switched to Samsung because they feel that Samsung will be able to pump out the chips faster and quicker than TSMC was able to, thinking they could have saved some money on the production line with TSMC. That's what I think at least. Looks like it didn't work out with TSMC.

who said they are switching?
they could use both for pascal to bring supply up
 
however i thinking samsung is doing volta
they are skipping 10nm - and 7nm will be reseved for what comes after volta...so volta is 14nm or 16nm finfet
 
 
by using Samsung they force tsmc to give them a better wafer deal and lower prices - good competition in the silicon market is a good thing
It's not like Nvidia is locked to TSMC like AMD is to GF...
you know they could always ask Intel to do some wafers - if they could trust them...lol
 
 

https://www.techpowerup.com/224976/samsung-to-optical-shrink-nvidia-pascal-to-14-nm
I read that as Samsung was going to produce the chips when they shrink them down to 14nm later in the year. I speculated that they would cut TSMC once Samsung got the boat going on the production.