Fermi delayed till May

[straxusii]

http://vr-zone.com/forums/561413/nvidia-quot-fermi-quot-gpus-delayed-yet-again.html

Probably see a handful of cards in April though I guess, maybe a soft launch

 

[cainer]

looks like the 5*** ati's are gonna hold their price for the next 4-5 months then, makes me feel a little bit better about having just taken delivery of 2 5870 vapor-X's

 

[straxusii]

Yeah must admit in September I debated holding out until November to see what fermi was like, glad I bought on launch day now for £300

 

[Baboonanza]

And by the time it's actually available to buy you could just wait for Northern Islands. Oh dear.

 

[cainer]

And by the time it's actually available to buy you could just wait for Northern Islands. Oh dear.

Northern Islands sounds like a nice place.. a place where the women and wine are plentyfull.. and clock speeds are infinate

 

[RavenXXX2]

Oh dear..

 

[cupofchow]

So charlie was right

 

[nikebee]

*Sighs*....

This is just getting ridiculous.

 

[Orangey]

So charlie was right

But nvidia bois will conveniently forget this the next time his name comes up in a thread.

 

[chiLLZ]

this is not good.........

 

[=VTA=MANFACE]

Custom PC said they will have tested one for the next issue ?

 

[Mr Fujisawa]

Miniscule stock in march/april confirmed for £500+ then?

 

[Freddie1980]

Custom PC said they will have tested one for the next issue ?

They might be allowed to test it but they most likely won't be allowed to print the results (maybe just selected results) all the big players in the market tie up journalists in strict NDA's now when a new product is about to launched.

 

[nikebee]

But nvidia bois will conveniently forget this the next time his name comes up in a thread.

60% of the time, he's right every time.

 

[marc512]

Just benchmarks will help all of us out. We dont wanna keep waiting for something crap REAL BENCHMARKS PLEASE. They can show us benchmarks now and compare them to later. If theres no difference well there just playing with ut.

 

[paradigm]

So charlie was right

No, Charlie (as always) used far too much hyperbole and was far too melodramatic. In that last article (about metal and base respins), Charlie was adamant that it would take a minimum of 6 months (the time it would take to tape out a base-layer respin, taking the silicon to B1) before the architecture could be manufactured in a "fixed" state.

Last time I checked, March > May is 2 months.

If Charlie were to be a little more conservative in his "predictions", and was to only state fact rather than speculation, he might be taken more seriously.

 

[rolypolyman]

Said Q2, May at the earliest, that doesn't mean definately May, could be even later.

 

[Baboonanza]

No, Charlie (as always) used far too much hyperbole and was far too melodramatic. In that last article (about metal and base respins), Charlie was adamant that it would take a minimum of 6 months (the time it would take to tape out a base-layer respin, taking the silicon to B1) before the architecture could be manufactured in a "fixed" state.

Last time I checked, March > May is 2 months.

It really depends on what Nvidia are doing doesn't it?

If they were doing a base respin and it was going to delay 'good' Fermi chips for 6 months do you think they'd tell everyone? No, what they'll do is say 'it's delayed til May' and then at the end of April say 'it's delayed til July' and so on. It's what they've been doing since Autumn last year after all.

They may just be doing another minor respin in the hopes that it'll miraculously improve yields.

And besides, until Fermi is released we won't even know if it is they 'fixed' it or not. I'm not saying Charlie is right, but it's too early to tell and your reasons for assuming he's wrong aren't valid.

 

[paradigm]

it's too early to tell and your reasons for assuming he's wrong aren't valid.

So, by the same definitions, the people saying that Charlie is right, their reasons aren't valid in the same light.

 

[mmj_uk]

So charlie was right

He said it was "unmanufacturable", by the sound of it NVidia are just expecting the same crap yields AMD have had to endured since the release 5xxx.