There’ve been reports circulating around the internet that NVIDIA’s next-generation flagship Fermi-G300 GPU won’t be commercially available until next year, and NVIDIA has just officially confirmed about this.
NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said during quarterly conference call that the company would only ramp up production of Fermi in the company’s first quarter of fiscal year 2011 which begins on January 26th and ends on April 26th. So, just don’t expect the Fermi-based graphics cards to be shipping in calendar 2009.
“Next year it is going to be an interesting first quarter because, in fact, we will need more wafers than ever in Q1. The reason for that is because - and I mean more 40nm wafers than ever in Q1 - we are… fully ramping Fermi for three different product lines: GeForce, Quadro and Tesla,” said Jen-Hsun Huang.
