Major producer of graphics chips, the company nVidia, faced with big challenges when creating a new generation of graphics processors, code-named Fermi. Recall, these chips for graphics cards have long been promised by the manufacturer, but the timing of all the delays.

NVidia CEO Jen-Sun Huang (Jen-Hsun Huang) seeks to fulfill his soaring aspirations and impress the world with its GPGPU, deal a crushing blow to the enemy, and finally to provide excellent graphics processors Fermi, whose area exceeds 500mm ², and internal flexibility allows use them for high-performance computing, and as usual the powerful GPU.

Cost ambitions Juan became apparent as soon as the plates were made with the prototypes, the production yields of which was simply awful: a few percents. With further development of production yields rose slightly, but according to rumors, it is still very low. Plus, receive the chips require a very large meals, hot and they exceed the limit in PCI 300W.

Video cards based on the upcoming graphics processors Fermi from nVidia, are expected to appear on the market in the coming months, probably in the first half of this year. Although some critics of the company predicts that the line of graphics cards based on Fermi would not be sufficiently competitive, as they will be too hot for a reasonable implementation and outrageously expensive Who knows, who knows.