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NVIDIA GF100 & Friends speculation
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It is fairly obvious that no company plans on spinning and respinning and respinning over an over. If things went well they would have launched in 2009. The question always is how well things are proceeding. So if someone predicted fall 09 in dec 08 then they would not be silly in the slightest.
Das Package der GTX-480-GPU misst 4,2×4,2 Zentimeter, die Karte 10,5 Zoll. The package of the GTX-480 GPU measuring 4.2 × 4.2 inches.
The translation from Zentimeter is inches?
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That does seem to be a genuine problem that ATI has addressed and Nvidia hasn't. You need a cutting edge process to build a cutting edge graphics chip, but by definition, the cutting edge process isn't ready for such complex chips. It's no good TSMC's 40nm being ready for Fermi one year after the competition has had it's products out.
AMD obviously made allowances and built the best product they could build with what they could get from TSMC. Nvidia didn't make any compromises, and ended up with something that couldn't be built on TSMC's process for the first year. Now ATI has had a clear run with better yeilds, and Nvidia are running around trying to do another re-spin and doing a small-run PE launch with a compromised product that may be outdated by the next-gen from ATI almost as soon as it arrives.
Why the hell would it be A2 silicon?
Das Package der GTX-480-GPU misst 4,2×4,2 Zentimeter, die Karte 10,5 Zoll. The package of the GTX-480 GPU measuring 4.2 × 4.2 inches.
The translation from Zentimeter is inches?
well bad translation, don't know lol google translation
Why would you throw away the working A2's you might have?
"According to company sources, the final specifications for the GTX-480-chip will have yet. Unconfirmed rumors that the GeForce GTX 480 is not even the previously assumed number of 512 shader cores have, but something less."
Is that a new rumor? Or have I missed something?
It must be what the Chinese are talking about, 480 shaders for the GTX480.
Yup. Companies don't plan on spinning and respinning and respinning over an over. They just spin things out of similarity with reality.
Why would you need A3 if you have working A2?
Working chip and production (or even launch) quality chips aren't necessarrily the same thing?
Why would you need B2 if you have working A3?
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