AMD is having some of its latest Ryzen 9000-series desktop CPUs made at TSMC's new fab in Arizona. So claims Taipei, Taiwan-based journalist Tim Cuplan.
It was reported last year that AMD was planning on having some high-performance CPUs made at TSMC's Arizona facilities. Now those CPUs have been identified as the latest Ryzen 9000 models and they are said to already be in production.
If true, that's an impressive win for TSMC's new US fab. It was only August last year that AMD released the Ryzen 9000, including the Ryzen 7 9700X, using 4nm silicon for the chip's CPUs made by TSMC's Taiwan factories, aslo known as the TSMC N4 node.
So, moving some of that production to the Arizona fab so soon certainly looks like a vote of confidence in the facility. However, the broader context for this news is quite complicated.
TSMC is on record as saying that chips in its Arizona fab cost more to make than equivalent products in is factories in Taiwan.