NVIDIA Will Reportedly Pay TSMC Nearly $7 Billion for GeForce RTX 40 Series and Other Next-Gen GPU Manufacturing

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NVIDIA will ultimately owe TSMC close to $7 billion for the privilege of having its upcoming GeForce RTX 40 Series and other next-generation GPUs manufactured on the leading semiconductor foundry’s advanced 5-nanometer process.



This is according to a report shared by MyDrivers this week, which shared that NVIDIA has already prepaid TSMC $1.64 billion in Q3 to prepare for its next round of products that include gaming graphics cards based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Following another $1.79 billion payment that’s already been lined up, it is estimated that green team will ultimately be paying TSMC as much as $6.9 billion over the long term for its heavily prized production capacity.



“[…] they are no longer a priority customer of TSMC,” MyDrivers reported, offering an explanation as to why NVIDIA has to send over truckloads...

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[Endgame]

They will just double msrp and make all that back no problem. Not like cards aren’t already selling at that price.

 

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