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Dave Baumann
02-May-2002, 01:08
In a move to calm speculation over concerns of nVIDIA's relationship with Microsoft and the Xbox, following the announcment that Microsoft have forced nVIDIA into arbitration over the price of the Xbox graphics chip, nVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has outlined (http://news.com.com/2100-1040-896850.html?legacy=cnet&tag=lthd) their current position in the various markets they operate in and let this one out the bag:

<blockquote>"Also on Monday, Nvidia raised its financial outlook for the just-ended quarter, and Huang said he sees continued market share gains this year leading to more growth. Some of that will come from a new graphics chip slated to arrive in August.

The new chip will be manufactured on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s latest 0.13-micron manufacturing process, Huang said. Huang did not reveal the name or specific features of the chip, but did say it was a fundamentally new architecture from the GeForce 4 Titanium introduced earlier this year."</blockquote>This is a fairly clear indication that NV30 is up next and August would be bang on time with their 6 month schedule.

And I've only just previewed (http://216.12.218.25/domain/www.beyond3d.com/previews/nvidia/gf4ti4200/) a GeForce 4...!
Anonymous
02-May-2002, 12:46
fundamentally new architecture from the GeForce 4 Titanium

Hopefully the best features/solutions from Gigapixel, 3dfx and NVidia. Could it be revolutionary?

Same thing happening to ATI: best of ArtX (Flipper) added to the Radeon? But I understand we won't see any 1T-SRAM - or?

And besides NVidia and ATI, we will see the return of 3DLabs and Matrox.

This fall will be really interesting!
Dave Baumann
02-May-2002, 13:19
Evidently, if you listen to one of the CC's Huang says 'Tiling is bad', so I think we can rule out a TBR for NV30.
Anonymous
02-May-2002, 15:48
When was that conference call recorded? Before or after NVidia had access to any tiling technology?
Laa-Yosh
02-May-2002, 21:09
Nvidia does not announce anything about upcoming products this early... usually.
Anonymous
02-May-2002, 22:41
Nvidia does not announce anything about upcoming products this early... usually.

Yeah well, they did now because they know that Matrox is gonna kick their butt in about two weeks. They're afraid and they should be.
Gunhead
03-May-2002, 08:49
And/or the present monkey business with M$ is slightly unusual.