NV35 announced in May

[Bjorn]

Prices are available for most of the new cards (www.komplett.se)

Some prices (in SEK, 9 sek ~ 1 €):

5200 64 Mb : 924 (Abit)
5200 128 MB : 1024 (Abit)
5200 Ultra: 2050 (Creative Labs)
5600 Ultra: 2552 (Creative Labs)
5800 : 3600 (Asus)
5800 Ultra: 4600 (Asus)

None of them are in stock, "coming 04-30"

compared to

9100 64 Mb: 783
9500 64 Mb: 1688
9500 Pro: 2139
9700: 2779
9700 Pro: 4274
9800 Pro: 5422

Sapphire all of them

only 9100 and 9500 64 mb in stock, rest of them "coming 04-15/25/30" depending on model.

 

[Dave Baumann]

According to Brian Skelton Sapphire will have some 9800's and 9200's available/shipping for Europe next week.

 

[Evildeus]

The first pre-command has shown up in France. Available on the 18th of April

 

[Prometheus]

It's a 15nm product; if you should mean BigCity it states clearly an availability for past 10th of April in the fine lines, which is more a prediction than a fact for the time being.

Its available at Infoshop.

 

[martrox]

As far as the 5200 is concerned.... I mean, who cares? It's only redeeming quality is totally unusable! Seems to me to be the "Yugo" of DX9 capable videocards!

 

[noko]

If the NV35 taped out, was it sent to IBM? Obviously the chip is functional if it was shown behind closed doors. So was Nvidia and IBM working together to see if they could produce Nvidia's next chip before the recent annoicement? Plus since IBM and TSMC process is probably different wouldn't that mean that Nvidia had to plan this way before the tape out?

 

[Mulciber]

If the NV35 taped out, was it sent to IBM? Obviously the chip is functional if it was shown behind closed doors. So was Nvidia and IBM working together to see if they could produce Nvidia's next chip before the recent annoicement? Plus since IBM and TSMC process is probably different wouldn't that mean that Nvidia had to plan this way before the tape out?

yes, they'd have to have been using IBMs .13u design rules. AFAIK you cant just tape-out the same information to both fabs. You have to use different design rules. I guess it would be like using a different compiler, only for asics. hehe

 

[elroy]

If the NV35 taped out, was it sent to IBM? Obviously the chip is functional if it was shown behind closed doors. So was Nvidia and IBM working together to see if they could produce Nvidia's next chip before the recent annoicement? Plus since IBM and TSMC process is probably different wouldn't that mean that Nvidia had to plan this way before the tape out?

I think someome in a different thread hinted that IBM and nVidia have been working together for a while, so yes, they would have been working on NV35 before the recent announcement.

 

[Dave Baumann]

I don't think there is any actual evidence they have had any prior relations with IBM. Current evidence suggests that initial NV35 samples were fabbed by TSMC.

 

[noko]

So which chip will IBM manufacture? NV35 or NV40? Will TSMC manufacture the NV35 initially and then IBM subsequently take over production? Alot of unanswered questions. Sounds like IBM will be working with Nvidia on the NV40 chip to me.

 

[Dave Baumann]

Most of the PR releases mentioned the "next GeForce FX chip", which indicates NV35, since NV40 is unlikely to be a "GeForce FX" (of course, if people read the news forum/main page they'd know all this! )

 

[noko]

:? yep, you are right plus the thread started over that news as well . I see other folks are having the same perception on this matter as I have, time will tell how this will pan out .