The low level of suitable chips release fermi generation was always outstanding occasion for conjectures and gossips. It is considered that the problems with 40 nm technical process from TSMC company forced NVIDIA to transfer from the autumn of last year to the end of March the present year the release of those cards. Furthermore, the high end graphical solution GeForce GTX 4xx instead of expected 512 stream processors obtained only 480 appropriate functional blocks.
Needham company analysts decreased forecast on the intermediate-term course of NVIDIA actions and transferred them in the recommendations category to hold after consultations , which reported complex situation with the accessibility of GeForce GTX 4xx in retail.
In the opinion of experts, the release level of suitable video chip fermi in the desktop and mobile segments now does not exceed 20-30%. It is interesting that in this phrase figure the mobile graphical solutions fermi generations. Obviously, their announcement will takes place in the current block, since for this period NVIDIA precisely planned the considerable expansion of proposals assortment due to products with fermi architecture.