Posted on Friday, August 05 2011 @ 18:34 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
NVIDIA officially dismissed rumors that its Kepler GPU would launch before the end of the year. The company
told X-bit Labs that it expects to receive early silicon later this year, but the actual product launch is planned for next year.
"Although we will have early silicon this year, Kepler-based products are actually scheduled to go into production in 2012. We wanted to clarify this so people wouldn’t expect product to be available this year," said Ken Brown, a spokesman for Nvidia, in an email statement.
Chris Malachowsky, senior vice president of research and a co-founder of Nvidia said at a recent event that Nvidia would start shipping its next-generation graphics processing units code-named Kepler by the end of the year. The company did not say that the new chips will actually become available commercially though.
