Nvidia taps Samsung, Micron for new gaming chips

Nvidia Corp on Tuesday announced a series of powerful gaming chips it designed using new memory tech from Micron Technology Inc and that it is having manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.

The Santa Clara, California-based company said its GeForce RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070 chips will improve video game graphics with twice the performance and nearly twice the power efficiency of previous versions.

Nvidia has long worked with a variety of chip manufacturers to fabricate its devices, and more recently has relied on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd for its most advanced chips.

Samsung will make the new GeForce chips with its 8-nanometer chipmaking process rather than its latest 5nm process. However, Nvidia officials said they worked with Samsung to customize the process so that Nvidia chips will be about 10% faster than other Samsung-made chips manufactured with the same 8nm process.