Caporegime
Something pretty interesting has been making the rounds lately. Word around the grapevine is, the Volta GPU is going to be landing one year early in May next year at the GTC event held annually by Nvidia. There are two particular sources in play on this report, both as critical to the authenticity of this information as the other. Before we go any further, I would like to point out that according to the official roadmaps, Nvidia has revealed to the public so far, Volta architecture was originally scheduled for release in 2018. That said however, I believe there has been a significant update.
NVIDIA Volta GPU
Nvidia launching the 16nm FinFET based Pascal successor on GTC on 8-11th May 2017 ?
Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang has previously stated that every GPU Technology Conference needs to involve a new GPU but as far as Volta was concerned – this was going to be impossible. Volta was originally designed for a process node that was smaller than the 16nm FinFET (namely 10nm FinFET TSMC), a node that was not going to be anywhere near maturity for large scale GPUs by mid-2017. This was of course the primary reason why everyone assumed we will not be seeing Volta by GTC 2017 next year.
So why am I still writing bout this? Well, the reason I think this report might actually turn out to be true is because though the Volta GPU was originally slated for release in 2018, a report recently published by Fudzilla claimed that Nvidia is giving the 16nm FinFET treatment to the Volta architecture. This of course, is something that completely changes the dynamics of Nvidia’s roadmap for 2016 and 2017. If Volta will indeed be manufactured on the 16nm FinFET node than we can actually expect to see it by May 2017 – which is less than a year away.
Read more: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-roadmap-2017-volta-gpu/#ixzz4FMJfyouX
It wouldn't surprise me to see Volta that early in truth and NVidia seem to be flying GPUs out quicker than we can get them in our machines
