[vga.zol]kepler wont see light till april at earliest

[IonusX]

kepler; nvidia's successor architecture to fermi that was originally slated for a paper release in march probably wont be seeing our eyes till april. this could mean you and i wont see hardware anywhere from april-may pushing kepler into the fringes of q2 territory. which would be a bad idea as the very next quarter nvidia is expected to debut kepler workstation variants, this may cause a delay on that front and so on..

 

[paul878]

I guess that explains why EVGA is coming out with a new line of power supply, 1500W.

 

[Quantos]

I guess that explains why EVGA is coming out with a new line of power supply, 1500W.

How is that related?

 

[thilanliyan]

^They got nothing else to pimp?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

April with Ivy and Kepler could be a busy month for my wallet...

 

[Borealis7]

How is that related?

i think it's a jab at Kepler's supposed power draw. if it's more than Fermi's then it's going to need every last Watt in there

April suits me fine, as i'm going to build an IVB rig and will probably sell my 5850 towards financing a nice 79XX or a Kepler.

 

[Lonyo]

Depends on what comes in April.
Given how far ahead of launch we saw Fermi "stuff", it could be anything from vague details about some stuff, to a full on hard launch.

As long there are hard numbers of actual performance and a "hard"-ish availability date by the time IvyBridge is available, NV will probably just about manage to catch the IvyBridge upgraders.

I know I can hold on for a little while with my 6850 if NV have benchmark numbers out by the time IB is available, but if they wait any longer I'm not going to hang around.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

This will probably be the first generation I've skipped in a long time. Don't really see many demanding games coming out anytime soon. BF3 will probably be the most demanding for a couple years and I'm currently pretty happy with my cards performance in BF3.

 

[gramboh]

I'm building an IB machine in April, mostly play BF3 these days. I'll probably keep my 560Ti until at least hard numbers for Kepler are out, then either grab a 7950/7970, Kepler or 560Ti SLI. They better have numbers/launch date before Ivy comes out though.

 

[formulav8]

I thought it was always assumed to be 2nd 1/4 at the earliest? At least that was my understanding?......

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Depends on what comes in April.
Given how far ahead of launch we saw Fermi "stuff", it could be anything from vague details about some stuff, to a full on hard launch.

As long there are hard numbers of actual performance and a "hard"-ish availability date by the time IvyBridge is available, NV will probably just about manage to catch the IvyBridge upgraders.

I know I can hold on for a little while with my 6850 if NV have benchmark numbers out by the time IB is available, but if they wait any longer I'm not going to hang around.

there's a rumor floating around of a March paper launch, which would conveniently coincide with AMD's 7990

If I make it to April without grabbing a 7970 chances are I'll be waiting regardless of whether or not we see any tangible Kepler

only thing really stopping me now is a distinct lack of triple slot aftermarket coolers (or aftermarket coolers in general) on the 7970

 

[Keysplayr]

Excellent. Can't wait.

 

[Panopticon]

There's an article on Fudzilla today about the kepler launch. I have been checking Fud for a while and they seem to be wrong most of the time when it comes to release dates but they keep posting new stories changing their time frame until they eventually get it right.

 

[-Slacker-]

Why does TSMC seem to have so many problems in the past few years?

 

[BD231]

Definitely in the market for 2gb cards, hopefully they have something interesting.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Why does TSMC seem to have so many problems in the past few years?

I don't know if it's a relevant comparison since I don't know the process at all but intel probably outsells nvidia and amd combined by 10x and I don't remember them having a shortage of chips.

 

[Panopticon]

Why does TSMC seem to have so many problems in the past few years?

because they are not intel?

Wish AMD had their own fabs so their would be another high quality and reliable fab out there TSMC and glofo seem to both have yield issues.

 

[Keysplayr]

because they are not intel?

Wish AMD had their own fabs so their would be another high quality and reliable fab out there TSMC and glofo seem to both have yield issues.

You do know that AMD used to have Fabs, but had sold them off since the ATI buy?

 

[Idontcare]

Why does TSMC seem to have so many problems in the past few years?

TSMC has always had problems, but their problems have always been dwarfed by their competitors having even bigger problems.

Regardless TSMC's 28nm state of readiness, UMC, IBM, Samsung and GloFo's foundry 28nm processes are nowhere to be seen.

 

[aphelion02]

^What is Intel able to do that these companies can't?

 

[Keysplayr]

^What is Intel able to do that these companies can't?

Throw money at any given obstacle or problem.

 

[AnandThenMan]

^What is Intel able to do that these companies can't?

Monopoly.

 

[Dark Shroud]

^What is Intel able to do that these companies can't?

Because Intel makes a in a quarter what those companies make in a year.

Intel invests several billion into their FABS to keep ahead of the curve.

 

[ZimZum]

^What is Intel able to do that these companies can't?

What makes you think Intel doesn't have problems? They just don't publicize them. And as others have noted they have virtually unlimited resources to work them out.

 

[3DVagabond]

Even Intel has OoS. I can't remember the last time the 3930K was available @ Newegg. Could it be that yields aren't that great for Intel on their latest chips? Or, something a bit more clandestine, like due to lack of competition, they are forcing people to buy the 3960X for a grand and just not binning the $600 chip? But I regress.