TSMC wars continue

Here is a part from that review:

"Nvidia worked strategically with TSMC to move the GeForce3 die into a "high performance" (meaning faster!) version of the 0.15u process technology. TSMC doesn't do this for just anybody.....they did it for us because Nvidia drive *so much* business through their fabs. "

You can find the rest of that review here.

This was one of the reasons how Nvidia make this card go faster and how they were able to get to faster clock speeds with Geforce 3 chips and name it Ti 500.

Nvidia was able to get a 40 MHz increase in speed from original Geforce 3 while ATi was also able to get some more extra speed.

According to ATi, its chip is clocked at 275 MHz - that is 35 MHz more than Ti 500 Nvidia fastest card that you can buy now. As Nvidia said "TSMC doesn't do this for just anybody", making us wonder how good a relationship ATi has with TSMC.

An ALi executive told us a few weeks back that TSMC is hungry for business like every IT company these days. This basically means that it will try and help everyone and keep customers satisfied - otherwise they might go its biggest rival in Taiwan, UMC.

ATi officially says that it has "good relations" with TSMC and 275 MHz chips prove that.

So six months after R8500 and its own 275 MHz we will se some faster clocked cards with 300+ MHz as this chip is capable of easily overclocking to those speeds.

Which of the companies has the higher priority at TSMC still remains a mystery, but we know that it is easy to spy the competition, since both companies make the chips at the same foundry. µ