Comment by ijidak
3 months ago
Honestly, I don't fully understand the reason for this shortage.
Isn't it because we insist on only using the latest nodes from a single company for manufacture?
I don't understand why we can't use older process nodes to boost overall GPU making capacity.
Can't we have tiers of GPU availability?
Why is Nvidia not diversifying aggressively to Samsung and Intel no matter the process node.
Can someone explain?
I've heard packaging is also a concern, but can't you get Intel to figure that out with a large enough commitment?
> Isn't it because we insist on only using the latest nodes from a single company for manufacture?
TSMC was way ahead of anyone else introducing 5nm. There's a long lead time porting a chip to a new process from a different manufacturer.
> I don't understand why we can't use older process nodes to boost overall GPU making capacity.
> Can't we have tiers of GPU availability?
NVidia do this. You can get older GPUs, but more performance is better for performance sensitive applications like training or running LLMs.
Higher performance needs better manufacturing processes.