When Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the company's latest quarterly report earlier this week he took the opportunity to answer some questions and also talk about the upcoming graphics architecture Fermi. Although Nvidia themselves unwilling to recognize it has been setup on the PC market for quite some time been the Fermi-architecture would not appear on the market until next year. Something close to Huang confirmed during his conference.

During October, Nvidia made a presentation of the Fermi-architecture in which almost all the focus was laid on the graphics chip used in Nvidia's Tesla platform for graphics calculations. Jen-Hsun Huang said that this was deliberate and that it also will make a similar presentation call their GeForce and Quadro-based versions of Fermi.

By his statement makes Huang quite clear that we will not see Fermi before year end, at least not in the market in any significant quantities for. It is something that we could confirm previous cross-manufacturer of graphics and now we're waiting just to get a concrete launch date of Nvidia. It could be a paper launch before year-end but much to suggest that AMD may play themselves in the DX11 market in 2009.