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Cheap Fermi coming mid 2010

by on26 February 2010

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Nvidia's CFO confirms


While
initial reported pricing left a lot to be desired, Nvidia’s CFO has calmed the rampant masses low on cash saying that cheaper Fermi-based offerings should arrive mid-2010.

David White, Nvidia’s chief financial officer said how “Fermi will show up as the GeForce and Tesla first and it will definitely show up first in the highest-performance configuration. Sometime in the mid-part of the year we will see a lower-cost version of that come out both for Quadro and Tesla,”. Although White didn’t spill the beans on cheaper Geforce offerings, it is expected that they should also be available after 1H 2010.

Once again, Nvidia makes a big deal out of the multi-functional nature of their cards and the fact that they’ve announced it at a compute conference rather than graphics conference is supposed to underline that. In fact, White says that the company will tape out “a whole stack of Fermi products that will be very specific for computing at the very high-end of the stack and others will be targeted at desktops and personal computing”.

As of late, Nvidia seems to actively lash out at anyone who associates the company solely with gaming but let’s face it, the huge majority of graphics cards is used for gaming and everyday work rather than compute work, and it’ll probably remain that way for a while. After all, announcing Fermi on a fishing conference won’t make everyone fish nor will it make Fermi into a must-have fishing device.

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Last modified on 26 February 2010
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