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0.15 is ready from TSMC Nvidia starts to roll out NV20 !!!

Translation:

In accordance with own specification TSMC is now able, the new 0.15µ - manufacturing process even for more complex diagram chip Designs to offer. So far the process was economical by the bad yield only for simpler and small chips. 6 TSMC customers would have already brought the " Tape Out " entwicklungsstufen mentioned with their Desings behind itself and to be briefly before production, so to TSMC. TSMC offers now the newest version of the manufacturing libraries, which are needed, in order to complete the hardware Design to its customers. TSMC indicates besides that with the new manufacturing process of embedded SRAM - memory to 0,5 MB is possible. From Nvidia's of next chip generation (NV20) one expects a manufacturing in this manufacturing process. As one of the largest customers of TSMC the major part of the capacity might have been reserved [ RAM ] to Wednesday 8 November for the Kalifornier 2000
 
all this says, if the translation is right, is that TSMC is able to get simple designs out of the .15u right now, but not more complex ones yet, and that when they are able to make complex ones, the NV20 will be one. this is not news. and it doesn't say that nv20 is being made right now.
 
Superbaby, in the last few years we have been getting new technology pretty much once a year (new generation graphics chipset) Only this year will we miss the new gen by over a year. (NV20) and I feel that is due to the current ceiling on memory bandwidth that plagues "brute force" rendering approaches.
 
"So far the process was economical by the bad yield only for simpler and small chips"

look, right here, says they're getting bad yield on anything other than simple and small chips, which the NV 20 is definitly not. it is not finished, all the kinks are not worked out, nVidia will not start production with this condition.
 
Technically yes we do get new hardware and stuff to play with.

But their improvements are usually not worth the amount the money we pay for, i.e. 20% increase in performance with a 50% increase in price. I count every two "releases" as one release because it's easier to manage your cash that way. Plus upgrading every single time something new comes out will even make Bill Gates cringe.
 
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