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I was stumbling around for information on MSI's very own lightning and any other customized Cypress based boards... What do i stumble on to... A roadmap of the Evergreen series!
http://phy-img13.imageshack.us/img13/3886/bheg.jpg
(source for this image is:
http://translate.google.co.in/transl...en-US:official )
It is a harmless little image but with potentially serious consequences for Nvidia... Seems like AMD/ ATI has been sitting pretty on something very very concrete for sometime now...
More Doom & Gloom
AMD ATI Northern Islands, next generation GPU
Northern Islands, is a new generation of Chips and several execs from AMD/ ATI have mentioned that the new generation of chippery would rather skip the 32nm node but instead would be manufactured on 28nm node. Now if you look closely enough on the details in the image provided, what you'll see is that some chips are manufactured on 28nm node. Now these are medium sized chips, not too small and not too big, just as AMD/ ATI dared with 4770 and 40nm production, which did indeed benefit AMD/ ATI with enough information to customize Evergreen core to the peculiarities of the 40nm manufacturing.
What one can conclude is that AMD/ ATI is potentially sitting on Evergreen cores which could be released with a certain degree of immediacy if it must, in order to counter Nvidia's Fermi. It also lends more credence to the voices of those AMD execs who have already mentioned that the next gen chippery, which is "Northern Islands", it is to be launching towards the end of this year. Oh, by the by, let us not forget that whenever it does come out, it will be DX11.1 compliant.
Whichever node the AMD/ ATI combine manufactures the new Evergreen cores and the new generation, they'll be in a position to put the squeeze on Nvidia nevertheless and hence my worry. One can only hope that Nvidia can get its act together... Nvidia, to its credit has already mentioned a plan to redo Fermi and we can bet our top dollar that they perchance are already at it. However, all it will take is just one slip and AMD/ ATI will be there ready to pounce, which may not end up very nicely for us end users of their products.
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