http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14749 NV40 is a 16 pipelines part 12 vs. 16 pipes at 210 millions of transistors By Fuad Abazovic in Wien: 星期二 16 三月 2004, 09:28 AFTER DAYS, nay weeks of inquiring we can now confirm that NV40 is not 8x2 marchitecture part as we previously suggested. Nvidia is behaving as if the NV40 was the Crown Jewels of Her Brittanic Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Fish can fly, but it's been spreading flying red herrings. Nvidia is telling "selected people" that NV40 is indeed 210 millions of transistor chip with 16 pipelines as we reported a few weeks ago. The other side of this NV40 coin is that the real Mc Coy the real NV40 card that was taped out quite some time ago is actually going to be KIA [Killed in action]. Very knowledgeable friends told us recently in the Vienna Opera house that NV40 with 16 pipes and 210 millions of transistor is completely other chip then original NV40. What actually happened is that Nvidia recently learned about R420 marchitecture and this entire 12x1 story and, that they will eventually end up in second place and decided to can NV40 project and to go immediately with NV45. Nvidia is a very egotistic company. NV45 is the name for PCI Express NV40 but apparently this new chip is a rushed new project that Nvidia wanted to save for later. Still as a consequence our Opera loving friend suggested that there is no possible way that Nvidia might have a working version of the chip at Cebit or if they have it its early silicon for showing off. You can forget about launch party at CeBIT or anytime soon, we are given to understand. Even if the company launches it in April it will be a pure paper launch as NVDA cannot deliver it so soon. It's not easy to make dramatic changes in silicon and as a consequence you have to re-tape it again and then hope that all will be fine in order to be ready to produce it in six weeks minimum. As the case is altered, Nvidia might win performance crown again but it's absolutely certain that ATI R420XT will be the first next generation card in shops. Nvidia and its partners desperately need this fuel possibly with Doom 3 as a rocket to launch it into RetailSpace. You just would not believe the lengths these graphics firms will go to. After I was thrown off the NVDA stand at SnowBIT last year, and had my arm broken by A TI on the slopes, straight after, the Canadian company even devised special codenames to throw me off the track, so to speak. Are they all nuts? μ ※ 引述《jhs1213 (...)》之铭言： : http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14524 : NV4X generation has MPEG 1,2,4 encode/decode : Next generation video support : By Fuad Abazovic: 星期四 04 三月 2004, 19:07 : NVIDIA'S NV40 is not going to be just fast in shaders and pixels, it will have : some additional features that will be interesting to anybody that messes with : Video. : The video capabilities of NV40 are quite something. : It seems that all NV4X generation of cards will feature very attractive video : options. : Nvidia wants to promote NV4X generation of chips as the ones with high quality : video, complete and ready for HDTV and PVR. : High quality video will brought motion adaptive de-interlacing, high quality : scaling and filtering, good old video de-blocking and integrated TV encoder. : As for HDTV, Nvidia claims Transport stream handling, HDTV output (720p, 1080p : , 480p CGMS) and HDCP - High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection as well as : HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface support. : The PVR part is the most interesting as Nvidia claims that the NV4X generation : will have support for no more and no less then MPEG 1/2/4 encode and decode as : well as WMV9 decode acceleration. : This means that all decoding and encoding operation previously done by software : and very CPU dependant will be able to be processed on NV4X chips. We are not : aware specifically how Nvidia plans to do that but it sounds promising. : ※ 引述《jhs1213 (...)》之铭言： : : 以下是一段新消息 越来越期待nv4x系列了... : : ------------------- : : Beyond3d上刊登了Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang在Morgan Stanley Semiconductor and Sys : : tems Conference会议上关於NV4X产品的谈话: : : "Jen-Hsun说NV4X系列是全新架构的一代产品，设计目标为:更高的可编程性，更多的性能 : : ，充分利用PCI-Express平台，更高的产能，弹性更佳。 : : 在谈到NV4X性能时，Jen-Hsun估计与上一代产品相比，性能提高比以前任何时候的产品过 : : 渡都要多。实际上，Jen-Hsun说"如果我们没有超过2倍多的性能，我将非常失望。" 当前图 : : 形流水线的可编程性能和应用程序增加，更多的要素将为GPU增强指令执行性能,而NV4X将采 : : 用许多这些技术. : : 关於NV4x的弹性,和以前芯片相同,NV40将覆盖从高端到低端的PC市场.估计今年底整个NV4X : : 处理器家族将全面铺货高低端产品.而在以前的NV1x和NV2x时代,一般有1或2个独立处理器 : : 同时制造.而现在Jen-Hsun说最多可能有5款NV4x处理器同时制造。 : : NV4x完全支持PCI-Express,并将充分利用总线架构的优势。这表明部分NV4x平台将是原生P : : CI-Express接口,此前谣传NV40将是AGP接口,但是Jen-Hsun的评论表明NV40可能将是一款PC : : IE芯片,但是显卡将采用桥接芯片，以在AGP系统中使用。而支持PCIE的入门级NV4x芯片估 : : 计在第三季度才会问世。 : : 过去NV3x的产能一直是困扰Nvidia的问题，但是Jen-Hsn说NV4x设计采用了"大量专利技术" : : 来提高产能。但是由於市场产品更迭太快，因此他们无法象CPU厂商那样精简设计来降低成 : : 本。Jen-Sun还说希望看到"100%产品来自TSMC"，看来虽然IBM也负责为Nvidia代工，但TSM : : C将成为Nvidia的首席代工伙伴。 : : Jen-Hsun还评论了关於NV4x将在几个月内宣布的谣言，他说那"可能是正确的"。 --

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