Nvidia has increased the orders for the 40nm graphic chips from their partner company, Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) from Taiwan. The news was leaked through internal sources from Graphic Cards manufacturers and accoding to them, Nvidia is expecting an manufacturing increase of 30% by the end of this year.

Nvidia has recently finished projecting the new GPU generation GT300 with 40nm chips manufactured by TSMC. Always according to Taiwan sources, the company would also have shown interest towards the 28nm technology that is being developed by TSMC, whose production should start at the first trimester of 2010.