NVIDIA: "Kepler" ships at the end of the year

AMD will be the first to introduce the next generation of 28nm new technology in the year, the "Southern Islands", NVIDIA's new process of "Kepler" will have to wait until next year, this is a consensus has been reached, but NVIDIA executives recently announced that open Puller will start shipping this year.

NVIDIA senior vice president of research and development and co-founder Chris Malachowsky said at the GTC Workshop conference in Japan: “Kepler will start shipping at the end of this year. Its unit power (double precision) floating point performance will be higher than Fermilab. About three times. We are about to release (the next generation GPU)."

However, as to when Kepler officially released and when it was listed, Chris Malachowsky did not give an exact statement. It is estimated that it is still likely to wait until early next year, and that Kepler, which has a very large possibility of first shipment, is used for high prices. Performance calculation Tesla can only come to GeForce on the desktop later. This is the case with Fermi, the previous generation.

Many industry insiders speculate that TSMC's 28nm process has been unable to mature. Facing the huge chip yield rate of Kepler, this is always a problem. There are also rumors that Kepler's performance level has not reached NVIDIA's expectations. It was forced to postpone. In fact, on the official road map previously announced by NVIDIA, Kepler was also moved to 2012.

In addition, according to data provided by analysts, shipments of global desktop discrete graphics cards decreased by 15% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2011.