AMD and TSMC have enjoyed a very close working relationship ever since the former spun off its chip-making facilities into a separate business in 2008. Its latest Ryzen desktop processors, which comprise two or three chiplets, are made entirely by TSMC, but if one report is to be believed, future CPUs could well be made by the Taiwanese firm's biggest rival: Samsung.
That's according to Nikkei Asia (via Jukan on X), which claims that "AMD…is in talks to build some future CPUs with Samsung from 2028." Although the report says this snippet comes from "one source with knowledge of the situation," the publication explains that the discussions are due to capacity constraints.
