Fudzilla - Fermi availability pushed back to April 12th

[ronnn]

Mabe they raised the voltage and clocks at the last minute with a new bios and, threw in a better cooler for the extra heat?

Certainly would explain the delay. Or maybe they wanted to prove Charlie wrong and have more than 10000 to ship. Or maybe they are having big issues and want to act like it's all good. Or maybe nvidia is fffing up and needs to fire a few people or


most likely they are on schedule, but were misleading the public so as to slow uptake of the 5800 series. They have their focus to keep the message on track.

 

[The Sauce]

Does anyone else here get the impression that Fermi is trying very hard to be the "Duke Nukem Forever" of the hardware scene? I expect any day now they will announce that they have scrapped the whole thing and are starting over with a new architecture.

 

[tviceman]

Does anyone else here get the impression that Fermi is trying very hard to be the "Duke Nukem Forever" of the hardware scene? I expect any day now they will announce that they have scrapped the whole thing and are starting over with a new architecture.

Yes that's the same feeling I got, especially after it was delayed for the 8th year in a row and 3 different times Nvidia decided to scrap everything to start over and announced they were moving from rasterization, to ray tracing, to voxels, and now back to rasterization. The parallels between the two are identical.

I mean Larrabee has nothing on Fermi. It was only announced like 4 years ago, delayed, delayed, rebooted, delayed, canceled, and then vowed to come back but that is nothing compared to Fermi's six month 9 year delay.

 

[SHAQ]

And Project Offset has been shut down...Larrabee's poster child game.