In the second half of October, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang will travel to TSMC headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan to discuss contract prices for 40nm GPU chip production. In addition, he will be making the trip to meet with the company’s motherboard and graphics AIB partners.

Discussions will be held with TSMC chairman Morris Chang regarding full-scale 40nm production. Meanwhile, Jensen will also be checking up on the current 40nm yields, which TSMC claims have risen from 30 percent to 60 percent in July.

Interestingly enough, Digitimes is reporting that Jensen will check up on the company’s long anticipated high-end GT300 GPU, which it says is expected to launch in December. As we have reported several times, Nvidia’s hopefully redesigned GT300 architecture is expected to launch in late Q4 and more specifically before the end of the year. Several sources have been claiming November to be the launch month, but it should be noted that Jensen has command over this decision and he could very well put the chip launch in December.

Even if something goes wrong, Nvidia will still show its hardware in late Q4 2009 just as they did with the Geforce GTX 295 dual-GPU and ship it in early Q1 2010. If this is to be the case, then the highly anticipated flagship GT300 dual-GPU card would likely make its way into retail channels during CES. All in all, let’s hope for Black Friday season launch on this one.