Facing a surge in wafer-foundry orders and internal engineering headcount
pressure, Samsung Electronics is considering outsourcing backend design for
Google's 2nm tensor processing unit I/O die. Industry sources say Samsung has
approached its design-solution partners to gauge interest in taking on backend
work for Google’s 10th-generation TPU I/O die, codenamed Icefish, which is
slated to be manufactured on Samsung’s 2nm process.