New technologies always manage to surprise us, and everything advances faster and faster, making it necessary to leave behind some of the manufacturing processes that we could have had a few years ago for others that are much more innovative or that bring considerable improvements. And in this case cuLitho It is one of these technologies that greatly accelerates production processes, being one of the objectives of NVIDIA increase the capabilities of companies such as TSMC so that they can overcome the limits that currently exist in these processes.
One of the problems that the main factories related to the manufacture of semiconductors around the world are currently facing is the physical limitations that exist when creating these products, since they need a large amount of time to be able to develop them. . But the arrival of a new lithography will greatly accelerate this process, allowing large companies to achieve new objectives when developing technological nodes and other related aspects.
NVIDIA’s cuLitho lithography is in production, bringing a host of changes to the tech industry
One of the great novelties that has been presented NVIDIA In addition to all its hardware-related products, it is the cuLitho lithographywhich aims to accelerate all processes related to the manufacturing of semiconductors, offering a considerable reduction in time. Computational lithography is virtually the most computationally intensive workload of the entire semiconductor design and manufacturing process, and a single creation process can require 30 million or more hours of CPU computation. .
But thanks to technological advances, this process is increasingly accelerated, and currently thanks to accelerated calculation, 350 systems that are based on the NVIDIA H100 GPU can replace about 40,000 CPUs, reducing space and energy costs while accelerating the production time. In this aspect we can see that in general the use of this lithography makes things much easier, and even the CEO of TSMC himself, Dr. CC Wei, assures that it is a change that will largely improve all aspects related to production. :
“Our work with NVIDIA to integrate GPU-accelerated computing into TSMC’s workflow has resulted in huge leaps in performance, dramatically improved throughput, reduced cycle times, and lower power consumption.” energy”
The fact that cuLitho is now in production is allowing TSMC to generally accelerate the development of the new generation of chips, at a time when current manufacturing processes were close to the limits physically possible. This great change that comes thanks to the computational acceleration applied to computational lithography allows creation processes to be much faster, which reduces the total time needed to develop a new technological node, and more importantly, makes possible new calculations that were practically impossible before.