NV35 To Be Formally Announced Next Month

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Here's a piece of news from Anton Shilov at Xbitlabs that should have you Nvidia fans jumping for joy!

Taiwanese media-sources revealed that NVIDIA?s next-generation NV35 graphics processor will be formally announced next-month with actual graphics cards appearing shortly afterwards.

We told you in the past that NVIDIA?s NV35 graphics chip had been taped out by CeBIT Hannover 2003 and was even demonstrated behind the closed doors during the show. Even if it was not the final revision of the chip, I remember NVIDIA claiming that it usually takes the Santa Clara-based fabless semiconductor company about 100 days to start the mass production after the first tape-out (100 Days Tape Out To Production, as NVIDIA calls it)...

For more info warp 2 Xbitlabs.com.