{"id":171645,"date":"2023-09-09T05:28:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T10:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/tsmc-warns-ai-chip-crunch-will-last-another-18-months"},"modified":"2023-09-09T05:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T10:28:36","slug":"tsmc-warns-ai-chip-crunch-will-last-another-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/tsmc-warns-ai-chip-crunch-will-last-another-18-months","title":{"rendered":"TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tsmc-warns-ai-chip-crunch-will-last-another-18-months.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bad news for anyone looking to get their hands on Nvidia\u2019s top specced GPUs, such as the A100 or H100: it\u2019s not going to get any easier to source the parts until at least the end of 2024, TSMC has warned. The problem, it seems, isn\u2019t that TSMC \u2013 which fabricates not just those GPUs for Nvidia but also components for AMD, Apple, and many others \u2013 can\u2019t make enough chips. Rather, a lack of advanced packaging capacity used to stitch the silicon together is holding up production, TSMC chairman Mark Liu told Nikkei Asia.<\/p>\n<p>According to Liu, TSMC is only able to meet about 80 percent of demand for its chip on wafer on substrate (CoWoS) packaging technology. This is used in some of the most advanced\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Boss Mark Liu says silicon ready but advanced packaging isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for anyone looking to get their hands on Nvidia\u2019s top specced GPUs, such as the A100 or H100: it\u2019s not going to get any easier to source the parts until at least the end of 2024, TSMC has warned. The problem, it seems, isn\u2019t that TSMC \u2013 which fabricates not just those GPUs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}