News revealed: AMD plans to use Samsung’s 4nm process to produce low-end APU and Radeon chips

It is said that AMD will rely more on Samsung foundry in the future, which may be related to the fact that TSMC's production capacity has been booked by other needs such as AI.

Previously, AMD originally planned to use Samsung's 4nm process to produce customized APU chips for Sony PS5 Pro, but the plan has been canceled and switched to the production of other different chips.

Another well-known tipster @harukaze5719 believes that AMD may let Samsung produce some Athlon series APUs or Phoenix 2 chips, such as Ryzen R3 8300G.

Compared with the regular Phoenix, the Phoenix 2 chip significantly reduces its memory and PCIe support capabilities. For example, Phoenix 1 can support PCIe 4.0 x8/PCIe 4.0 x4, while Phoenix 2 only supports PCIe 4.0 x4/PCIe 4.0 x2.

AMD R3 8300G is based on TSMC's 4nm FinFET process, adopts 4-core 8-thread design, frequency range is 3.4~4.9 GHz, has 4MB L2 cache + 8MB L3 cache, integrates 4CU Radeon 740M core display, supports 2 memory channels, up to DDR5- 5200.