The timing of this release seems like bad news for nvidia.
Allow me to elaborate.
nvidia currently is relying on their "Fermi" chips to allow them to recover from the trouncing AMD's given them lately. One of the big gambles with Fermi is that it is HUGE, and as such, they will be pushing the Fermi-based Tesla's as general purpose super computers (like this one, but even more better).
Given that people who need these things probably take a while to research and plan their acquisitions, why would Asus release a new one just a month or two before Fermi is supposed to come out? That is, unless they think Fermi will be delayed, or won't be as impressive as expected?
Still, Asus putting this out now is no real indication of anything except that Fermi isn't arriving before Christmas, and we knew that already... it's no sweat for them to update the model with the new cards when they show up.
If we are placing bets: Fermi in quantity by early Q2 2010.
since fermi is not coming out yet, this machine will be used for all the upcoming holiday 2009 video editing capturing encoding etc. which would easy translate to payment for the supercomputer. as of today there are tons of video jobs to be done at my friends laboratory.
Sony's just released a 15.5-inch addition to its VAIO S Series that not only adds a crucial bit of extra display acreage, but also bumps things up to a full 1080p.
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The timing of this release seems like bad news for nvidia.
Allow me to elaborate.
nvidia currently is relying on their "Fermi" chips to allow them to recover from the trouncing AMD's given them lately. One of the big gambles with Fermi is that it is HUGE, and as such, they will be pushing the Fermi-based Tesla's as general purpose super computers (like this one, but even more better).
Given that people who need these things probably take a while to research and plan their acquisitions, why would Asus release a new one just a month or two before Fermi is supposed to come out? That is, unless they think Fermi will be delayed, or won't be as impressive as expected?
Probably too subtle for the engadget set.
Still, Asus putting this out now is no real indication of anything except that Fermi isn't arriving before Christmas, and we knew that already... it's no sweat for them to update the model with the new cards when they show up.
If we are placing bets: Fermi in quantity by early Q2 2010.
since fermi is not coming out yet, this machine will be used for all the upcoming holiday 2009 video editing capturing encoding etc.
which would easy translate to payment for the supercomputer. as of today there are tons of video jobs to be done at my friends laboratory.