UMC Vying For NVIDIA’s 80nm Business

As NVIDIA begins its trial runs on 80nm node manufacturing at TSMC it looks like UMC might resort to aggressive pricing in an effort to steal away business from TSMC. Currently, 90% of NVIDIA products are manufactured by TSMC, only 10% at UMC.

Both Nvidia and ATI Technologies are gearing up for migration to 80nm process production, with ATI scheduled to production later this year at both TSMC and UMC. Nvidia CEO Huang Jen-hsun has described TSMC as its closest production partner, with the foundry making 90% of its products. The other 10% are manufactured by UMC and Chartered Semiconductor.