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Loading ...If you’re going to San Francisco, speculate wildly before they make you sign an NDA
Alex Watson
The autumn is getting interesting - Intel has had its say at IDF, and now its Nvidia’s turn. At the end of the month I’m off to GeForce/nForce HQ in Santa Clara (near San Francisco, in Silicon Valley) to hear them talk about…. well, they won’t say. And before they do, I’ll have to sign an NDA. So before I do, how about a few guesses? Pictures of a new GeForce card with a single-slot cooler have been doing the rounds, but California is a long way to go for just a new mid-range card. It’s not cheap to ship journalists around the world (even though we do fly cattle class), so I’d expect more than just one new product. A successor to the 8-series (or at least a 7800 to 7900 style revision) seems a decent guess, and of course, compared to Intel, things have been quiet on the chipset front for Nvidia, so a successor to nForce 650/680i could be on the cards . Of course, it might be something far crazier than that but while AMD is capable of some real surprises, my feeling is that Nvidia is a far more focussed company…
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Loading ...Where Nvidia goes next
Alex Watson
There’s an interesting thread on the forums about Nvidia’s ‘8900 series’, and I posted a quick reply this morning, which then got me thinking about the topic in a bit more depth. Not to get too Donald Rumsfeld about it, but there are a few known unknowns and plenty of unknown unknowns when it comes to Nvidia’s next GPU…