Previously from NVIDIA graphics chips (gpus) companies a new generation of graphics chip architecture Volta, may use 16 nm or 10 nm TSMC process production. Expected NVIDIA may choose to 10 nm TSMC manufacture process, but according to recent foreign employment instructions, NVIDIA might reveal the NVIDIA intends to 10 nanometers, just skip to 7 nm TSMC process production Volta.

Reports according to the technology website Motley Fool, a NVIDIA in employment announcement, the company's website for defect analysis engineer a job description, a start originally wrote to ask for 28 nm, 20, 16 and 14 nano and 10 nano process defect analysis experience engineer, because there are 10 nanometers, thus seems to imply that NVIDIA product next stage is likely to use 10 nm process.

But recent NVIDIA update again the company conditions and instructions to apply for a job, although the conditions that almost to conditions about the previous one, but found there was a specification change, that the above mentioned original 10 nm process, are now into seven nanometers, and 7 is directly replace 10 nano was listed on the latest employment conditions, means that NVIDIA could not recruit experienced engineer 10 nanometers defect analysis. By NVIDIA and media analysis, is apparently likely to skip 10 nanometers, change to 7 nm process production Volta.

After TSMC has been used to suggest that the life cycle of 10 nm process is not long, the main service mediatek, Apple (Apple) and sea (HiSilicon) application processor industry operations, 10 nm TSMC process expected in early 2017 into production, and will last for about 1 year become the flagship of the process, TSMC since about half will be 7 in 2018 nm process become a flagship production process.

Although previous gaiden NVIDIA may tendency with the production of 16 nm process Volta, rather than 10 nm process, but as a result of 16 nm process may have been out of date from now to 2019, but 10 nm TSMC process cycle is not long, therefore considered if NVIDIA directly into 7 nm process makes sense.

If NVIDIA plan in 2017 or the beginning of 2017 time make Volta, because this paragraph of time is 10 TSMC nano expected production schedule, thus makes the Volta, at the beginning of 2017 ~ 2018 by 10 nm process makes sense; If Volta must be half to build in 2018, is seen as NVIDIA best wait for 7 nm process on the road, after all, 7 nm process can provide a better efficiency improved performance.