According to our well informed industry sources, Nvidia will display Fermi GPUs at the upcoming CES in Las Vegas. This means we should be able to see it right on January 7th when the show starts.
The company won’t share all the information especially as
after CES Nvidia wants to have its famous editor's days in Vegas and show them
the power of Fermi. Since this is an NDA event, this is not something we will
be attending anytime soon, but most of our good friends will.
The Fermi launch is still “on schedule” for Q1 but we can
only hope that this will happen in real people Q1, latest on March 31th and not
at Nvidia’s financial Q1 that runs one month behind.
Fermi is real, but
since volume production is ramping up, even if launched in January, Fermi
would have very limitedly availability for quite a few weeks.
All the delays definitely have casted a bad aura
around this product and many people, especially the one whos love the power or ATI, now
compare Fermi to NV30. So far, at least with all of the delays, they are not
that much off.