NVIDIA first, recognize that the company partners for video card release obtained informations about the forthcoming removal from the production Of GeForce GTX 260, GeForce GTX 275 and GeForce GTX 285. The completion periods of the life cycle for these products were not noted.
In the second place, and this is one of the most important for end user statements, video card series GeForce GTX 2xx can be found on sale as the minimum until February following year. This indirectly confirms NVIDIA plans to update the model number with the aid of fermi architecture to March. However, the scarcity of video card on base of the GT200b chip was explained by NVIDIA representatives by the expenses of production planning - demand in the present half-year proved to be above the forecasted values; therefore, the quantity of gT200b chips released proved to be not as large as it is required for saturating the demand.Independent sources assume that NVIDIA can't reduce the prices of GeForce GTX 2xx after the release Of radeon HD 58xx, and the company simply decided to gradually roll up the production of 55 nm chips GT200b, trying to faster replace them with GF100. By the way, Associates consider that the first video card with fermi architecture will appear on sale in the beginning of the following year.
Speaking about NVIDIA company future , on the business of chipset production come to the end - graphic core and memory controllers move in the central processors, the use of chipset from strange producers simply becomes senseless. NVIDIA chipset can be held in the mobile segment, which includes products for atom platform . The success Of tegra and ION platform can be in many respects explained by the delay of Intel products from the side of work with video. As soon as this delay will be removed, NVIDIA had to search for new buyers under the more complex conditions.