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Now attending a press conference that is following up the keynote speech by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, at the NVIDIA GPU Conference. Attending are Jensen Huang, Drew Henry - General Mgr GPU, and Tony Tomasi - Senior VP of Content and Technology.
Jensen is opening up stressing the importance of heterogeneous computing and that the GPU is a big part of that. GPU will be utilized far beyond just graphics, but graphics will still be a huge part of NVIDIA's GPU business. New tools have been developed that allow for heterogenous programming and debugging.
Jensen added, Silicon of Fermi is "in house" and "we are bringing it up." Time to market is likely "a few short months." Jensen is stating that Fermi is much more than a video card for gaming and that, "DX is just a feature and it is not enough. We need something big and new!" "We need Fermi to bring excitement and sex appeal back." I am not sure what exactly that means, but it sounded good.
On the topic of 5800 shipping and market competition, Jensen stated, "Nobody likes when the competition has a product. I don't like keeping our enthusiast waiting on our next generation processors. I would rather be shipping today, but we will ship when the product is ready to ship."
On the size of Fermi, Jensen stated, "It is only big right now, because it is the biggest chip ever built." "Power consumption will be the same as today's GPUs. It will fit into today's PCs and 1U servers."
Jensen is opening up stressing the importance of heterogeneous computing and that the GPU is a big part of that. GPU will be utilized far beyond just graphics, but graphics will still be a huge part of NVIDIA's GPU business. New tools have been developed that allow for heterogenous programming and debugging.
Jensen added, Silicon of Fermi is "in house" and "we are bringing it up." Time to market is likely "a few short months." Jensen is stating that Fermi is much more than a video card for gaming and that, "DX is just a feature and it is not enough. We need something big and new!" "We need Fermi to bring excitement and sex appeal back." I am not sure what exactly that means, but it sounded good.
On the topic of 5800 shipping and market competition, Jensen stated, "Nobody likes when the competition has a product. I don't like keeping our enthusiast waiting on our next generation processors. I would rather be shipping today, but we will ship when the product is ready to ship."
On the size of Fermi, Jensen stated, "It is only big right now, because it is the biggest chip ever built." "Power consumption will be the same as today's GPUs. It will fit into today's PCs and 1U servers."
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