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R420
It's from Inquirer so it must be taken with a grain of salt BUT
apparently this is true according to the folks on the Beyond3D forum.
basicly NV45 is being moved into NV40's place and it will carry the
NV40 name.
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NV40 is a 16 pipelines part
12 vs. 16 pipes at 210 millions of transistors
By Fuad Abazovic in Wien: Tuesday 16 March 2004, 09:28
AFTER DAYS, nay weeks of inquiring we can now confirm that NV40 is not
8x2 marchitecture part as we previously suggested. Nvidia is behaving
as if the NV40 was the Crown Jewels of Her Brittanic Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II. Fish can fly, but it's been spreading flying red
herrings.
Nvidia is telling "selected people" that NV40 is indeed 210 millions
of transistor chip with 16 pipelines as we reported a few weeks ago.
The other side of this NV40 coin is that the real Mc Coy the real NV40
card that was taped out quite some time ago is actually going to be
KIA [Killed in action]. Very knowledgeable friends told us recently in
the Vienna Opera house that NV40 with 16 pipes and 210 millions of
transistor is completely other chip then original NV40.
What actually happened is that Nvidia recently learned about R420
marchitecture and this entire 12x1 story and, that they will
eventually end up in second place and decided to can NV40 project and
to go immediately with NV45.
Nvidia is a very egotistic company.
NV45 is the name for PCI Express NV40 but apparently this new chip is
a rushed new project that Nvidia wanted to save for later.
Still as a consequence our Opera loving friend suggested that there is
no possible way that Nvidia might have a working version of the chip
at Cebit or if they have it its early silicon for showing off. You can
forget about launch party at CeBIT or anytime soon, we are given to
understand. Even if the company launches it in April it will be a pure
paper launch as NVDA cannot deliver it so soon.
It's not easy to make dramatic changes in silicon and as a consequence
you have to re-tape it again and then hope that all will be fine in
order to be ready to produce it in six weeks minimum.
As the case is altered, Nvidia might win performance crown again but
it's absolutely certain that ATI R420XT will be the first next
generation card in shops.
Nvidia and its partners desperately need this fuel possibly with Doom
3 as a rocket to launch it into RetailSpace.
You just would not believe the lengths these graphics firms will go
to. After I was thrown off the NVDA stand at SnowBIT last year, and
had my arm broken by ATI on the slopes, straight after, the Canadian
company even devised special codenames to throw me off the track, so
to speak.
Are they all nuts? µ
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14749
apparently this is true according to the folks on the Beyond3D forum.
basicly NV45 is being moved into NV40's place and it will carry the
NV40 name.
_______________________________________________________________________________
NV40 is a 16 pipelines part
12 vs. 16 pipes at 210 millions of transistors
By Fuad Abazovic in Wien: Tuesday 16 March 2004, 09:28
AFTER DAYS, nay weeks of inquiring we can now confirm that NV40 is not
8x2 marchitecture part as we previously suggested. Nvidia is behaving
as if the NV40 was the Crown Jewels of Her Brittanic Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II. Fish can fly, but it's been spreading flying red
herrings.
Nvidia is telling "selected people" that NV40 is indeed 210 millions
of transistor chip with 16 pipelines as we reported a few weeks ago.
The other side of this NV40 coin is that the real Mc Coy the real NV40
card that was taped out quite some time ago is actually going to be
KIA [Killed in action]. Very knowledgeable friends told us recently in
the Vienna Opera house that NV40 with 16 pipes and 210 millions of
transistor is completely other chip then original NV40.
What actually happened is that Nvidia recently learned about R420
marchitecture and this entire 12x1 story and, that they will
eventually end up in second place and decided to can NV40 project and
to go immediately with NV45.
Nvidia is a very egotistic company.
NV45 is the name for PCI Express NV40 but apparently this new chip is
a rushed new project that Nvidia wanted to save for later.
Still as a consequence our Opera loving friend suggested that there is
no possible way that Nvidia might have a working version of the chip
at Cebit or if they have it its early silicon for showing off. You can
forget about launch party at CeBIT or anytime soon, we are given to
understand. Even if the company launches it in April it will be a pure
paper launch as NVDA cannot deliver it so soon.
It's not easy to make dramatic changes in silicon and as a consequence
you have to re-tape it again and then hope that all will be fine in
order to be ready to produce it in six weeks minimum.
As the case is altered, Nvidia might win performance crown again but
it's absolutely certain that ATI R420XT will be the first next
generation card in shops.
Nvidia and its partners desperately need this fuel possibly with Doom
3 as a rocket to launch it into RetailSpace.
You just would not believe the lengths these graphics firms will go
to. After I was thrown off the NVDA stand at SnowBIT last year, and
had my arm broken by ATI on the slopes, straight after, the Canadian
company even devised special codenames to throw me off the track, so
to speak.
Are they all nuts? µ
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14749