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 (...)》之銘言： : 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 (...)》之銘言： : : 以下是一段新消息 越來越期待nv4x系列了... : : ------------------- : : Beyond3d上刊登了Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang在Morgan Stanley Semiconductor and Sys : : tems Conference會議上關於NV4X產品的談話: : : "Jen-Hsun說NV4X系列是全新架構的一代產品，設計目標為:更高的可編程性，更多的性能 : : ，充分利用PCI-Express平台，更高的產能，彈性更佳。 : : 在談到NV4X性能時，Jen-Hsun估計與上一代產品相比，性能提高比以前任何時候的產品過 : : 渡都要多。實際上，Jen-Hsun說"如果我們沒有超過2倍多的性能，我將非常失望。" 當前圖 : : 形流水線的可編程性能和應用程序增加，更多的要素將為GPU增強指令執行性能,而NV4X將採 : : 用許多這些技術. : : 關於NV4x的彈性,和以前芯片相同,NV40將覆蓋從高端到低端的PC市場.估計今年底整個NV4X : : 處理器家族將全面鋪貨高低端產品.而在以前的NV1x和NV2x時代,一般有1或2個獨立處理器 : : 同時制造.而現在Jen-Hsun說最多可能有5款NV4x處理器同時制造。 : : NV4x完全支持PCI-Express,並將充分利用總線架構的優勢。這表明部分NV4x平台將是原生P : : CI-Express接口,此前謠傳NV40將是AGP接口,但是Jen-Hsun的評論表明NV40可能將是一款PC : : IE芯片,但是顯卡將採用橋接芯片，以在AGP系統中使用。而支持PCIE的入門級NV4x芯片估 : : 計在第三季度才會問世。 : : 過去NV3x的產能一直是困擾Nvidia的問題，但是Jen-Hsn說NV4x設計採用了"大量專利技術" : : 來提高產能。但是由於市場產品更迭太快，因此他們無法象CPU廠商那樣精簡設計來降低成 : : 本。Jen-Sun還說希望看到"100%產品來自TSMC"，看來雖然IBM也負責為Nvidia代工，但TSM : : C將成為Nvidia的首席代工伙伴。 : : Jen-Hsun還評論了關於NV4x將在幾個月內宣布的謠言，他說那"可能是正確的"。 --

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