Expectations for the future, products:
* Aims to deliver “an exiting roadmap of digital processors” for handhelds market. 60 ex-MediaQ engineers to join NVIDIA.
* Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang mentioned “design-wins” for the GoForce 2150 for Europe, Asia and the USA.
* The co projects new lineup of ultra low-power media processors for handhelds.
* The management also talked about exciting DTV products during the conference call, but provided not details or timeframes for the devices.
* The CEO talked on a future MCP with native Gigabit Ethernet and Serial ATA-150. Claimed the company will bring “MCP’s features and performance to a new level during the quarter”.
* No updates on nForce for Intel CPUs.
* The officials from NVIDIA confirmed a “whole-new” NV4x family to be launched next year (probably, calendar year, editor) and bring “programmable shading and cinematic computing to a new level”.
* In Q1 some of NV4x will be in production. By Q2 many of NV4x will be in production to bring the margins up. By Q3 “almost entire” family of NV4x will be ramping up in production. No indications whether “calendar” or “fiscal” quarters, though.
* When asked about NV40 tapeout, the management did not comment saying “We do not comment on tapeouts; we just comment on production ramps and design wins. There will be time to talk about NV40, today is our time to talk about 5950 and 5700…”
* NVIDIA will offer top-to-bottom lineup of GPUs and MCPs with support for PCI Express.
* NVIDIA is now sampling customers with its “first PCI Express technology”.
* NVIDIA is excited about the PCI Express and will surely be on track with it, but denied to talk about the speed of transition, etc.
* NVIDIA anticipates “something like” 10 different versions of GPU products next year, the majority of which will be PCI Express, as I understood from Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA’s CEO.
e já fico com um bom speed para o
pci express é para quando?