DisEnchantment
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These roadmaps take a long time to materialize and AMD would have gotten the TSMC roadmap a long time ago about ramp, availability, timeline etc. and they need to order wafers then, not now. Take Huawei for example, they overprovision and book wafers and then cancel them if they cannot move that many units.
For NVIDIA, they design with Samsung and booked wafers there (for several reasons) and when roadmaps don't materialize plans go for a toss. Moving to TSMC cannot happen overnight and there is a long tapeout and industrialization lead time.
Not sure what will happen.
But I think there is a probability of Orin's 2021 time frame being related to this.
For NVIDIA, they design with Samsung and booked wafers there (for several reasons) and when roadmaps don't materialize plans go for a toss. Moving to TSMC cannot happen overnight and there is a long tapeout and industrialization lead time.
Not sure what will happen.
But I think there is a probability of Orin's 2021 time frame being related to this.