Graphics firm NVIDIA has taped out chips which it will release later this year in a fresh assault to dominate the market. This includes a new king of the hill as well, the almighty G92, also known as the GeForce 9800. NVIDIA is paying quite a lot of attention to thermals and performance of the chip in complex shaders. The G92 was not the only product that was taped out, but we're waiting to dig out more details of these. However, one of the chips is NVIDIA's counter to R680 from ATI to improve the somehow shabby R600 chip. And when it comes to manufacturing, NVIDIA moved away from 80nm manufacturing processes over at TSMC and opted for a new manufacturing process. - The Inquirer

NVIDIA Plans Autumnal G9x Series Chipsets Assault

Knowing Graphzilla's brilliant record of accomplishment and 100 day tape-out to retail shelf policy, the new GeForce should debut in late October or early November. However, our sources told us that company is now devoting key time to fixing problems with the existing GeForce 8 series of cards, caused by buggy chips, as one source put it. This might impair the performance of initial drivers. After seeing all the problems that plagued owners of Radeon HD 2000 and GeForce 8 series of cards, we must start questioning whether the industry is actually going in the right way.

One Quad SLI source said, if we own a Ferrari, we expect that the value of the car will grow, but even if it does not, we do expect a premium service. With these two boards, we got worse treatment than a person who bought a €99 card, and we spent more than ten that. It will be interesting to see what will happen in Autumn. However, if you are expecting a G92 versus R680 battle, you might want to wait until after Yuletide. Since, AMD is focusing on RV670 right now.