In the end NVIDIA pays almost 2 billion in advance to TSMC

As we informed you last week, in the end NVIDIA pays almost 2 billion in advance to TSMC.

At the gates of CES 2022 to present the graphics RTX 3070 Ti 16GB, RTX 3080 12GB y RTX 3090 Ti 24GB, The World’s Largest Chip Maker Has Got NVIDIA Prepaid For The Next Charts That Will Carry The Graphics NVIDIA RTX 4000.

This is something new, since as a general rule payments are made once the chips have already been designed and mass-manufactured, but in this case and we want to assume that it is due to the current situation that the whole planet is going through, in the end NVIDIA pays almost 2 billion in advance to TSMC.

But it is not only the almost 2 billion that they have had to pay, but the long-term payment that NVIDIA must pay to TSMC is a whopping sum of almost 7 billion, a figure that they will have to pay as they manufacture. more chips.

Let’s say this is a way for companies not to look to another manufacturer to be able to acquire the chips, although the truly strange thing is that Apple, Mediatek and AMD will not have to make said payment, and you will wonder why?

Well, these companies seem to have carried out a gigantic measure in advance for some time to ensure the new chips, not like NVIDIA that places orders according to demand.