TSMC has announced that it will use AMD EPYC processors for its manufacturing business workloads. That's right, TSMC is using the chips it manufactures to manufacture the chips it produces. To be fair, this is a recent upgrade to the company's data centers, and they did not time travel to achieve this seemingly paradoxical situation. [More than 50,000 employees work for the manufacturing giant at locations in Taiwan, Europe, Japan, China, and the U.S. TSMC is using HPE's DL324 G10, a 64-core, 2nd generation AMD EPYC 7702 CPU with a base clock of 2 GHz and boost of 3.35 GHz. Platform.

TSMC and AMD already have a working relationship, but they were not set on using AMD hardware in their own servers and needed to show they were better than the competition, thanks to TSMC's 7nm manufacturing process and AMD EPYC's superior power efficiency, TSMC seems to have achieved this.

TSMC is clearly impressed with the EPYC experience so far and plans to bring in two more data centers in 2021. They are also eyeing the new EPYC 7F72 CPUs for their manufacturing team. These CPUs have 24 cores and a base clock of 3.2 GHz.

Closer cooperation between AMD and TSMC can only mean good things for AMD in the future. However, if they can pull more silicon from TSMC, that would be a welcome development.