The choice of Nvidia to contact Samsung for the production of the GPU Ampere installed on the new series of video cards GeForce RTX 3000 . A decision most likely guided by the fact that TSMC had already allocated much of its 7-nanometer production capacity to other companies, including AMD and Apple, and could not meet the needs of the company led by Jensen Huang.

Samsung’s 8-nanometer manufacturing process is not responsible (or at least, not the only one) for the Nvidia GPU shortage in stores, in fact even AMD is experiencing the same situation with TSMC: the cause of everything is a shortage of components – substrates and other chips such as VRAM memories – which are used to build video cards. According to rumors arriving in these hours from South Korea, Nvidia has signed a second agreement with the Asian company to continue GPU production. It follows that the US company would not be finding that bad with the partner, or perhaps it simply has no alternatives and is counting on a redemption and an increase in production.

It should be noted that the indiscretion does not indicate which GPUs will make Samsung on behalf of Nvidia , but there is talk of a contract of hundreds of billions of won and a production to be held at the Hwaseong plant. This new indiscretion therefore seems to sweep away the rumors that Nvidia intended to return to TSMC as soon as possible. (and likely) SUPER line of GeForce RTX video cards 3000 , performance update of current proposals. In reality, the agreement could be a simple extension and / or revision of the existing agreement. The source does not say anything clear and definitive.

Nvidia is expected to present new GPUs for notebooks in the coming weeks and early months of 2021 will also expand the desktop range. The arrival of a SUPER series still seems several months away, on the other hand the RTX range 2000 has been followed from the SUPER line after a year, so logically we should wait at least September 2021 for the RTX 3000 SUPER.

Since the indiscretion is very vague, you have to take it with pliers, everything it may be: the current situation in the video card sector will not be resolved for several months according to the words of the “protagonists”, so evolutions cannot be ruled out.