NVIDIA 7nm (Ampere) GPUs Landing Within 9 Months, Analyst Reports

NVIDIA 7nm (Ampere) GPUs Landing Within 9 Months, Analyst Reports

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NVIDIA has been awfully quiet this past year, only rolling out its premium RTX series and cruising along in the wake of its powerful 16nm-based Pascal and Turing GPUs but it looks like the time has finally come for the company to jump ship to 7nm. According to an analyst from Susquehanna Financial Group, the company is planning to shift to 7nm within 9 months of today. This means that you can expect a 7nm graphics card launch by 2H 2020 - a timeline that has already been leaked at least 4 times before.

The GPU industry has, as a result of NVIDIA's apathy, been fairly slow not only in terms of the usual perf per $ growth but as a function of the absolute performance growth as well. With NVIDIAs competitive incentive broken (we have AMD to thank for that, unfortunately), the company also ran afoul in its usually stellar earnings records. In fact, while NVIDIA remains on the 16nm process, AMD became the process leader by moving on to TSMC's 7nm process. Here is what the analyst had to say: