OK, it's a Charlie D article so fanatically biased, but does he have a point?
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/...mi-boards-gtc/
I suspect it was indeed a fake. Not that it really matters though. :)
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OK, it's a Charlie D article so fanatically biased, but does he have a point?
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/...mi-boards-gtc/
I suspect it was indeed a fake. Not that it really matters though. :)
Thoes pictures are from a fake card, however looking at the original source http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/n...01_318660.html
Those pic's are not of the card that Jen-Hsun Huang held up.
So fake might not be the right word, it looks more like a presentation mock up, of the "here's a model of what our final design will look like" type.
If nvidia is clameing that's a final working prototype then I'd fully agree that's rather naughty of them and would leaad me to think that they are behind schedual with an actual working prototype.
Or where they really paraniod that someone might steal it?
That does look like a non functional physical model.
Such things have to exist as part of the engineering process, but it would require a bear of very little brain to let the press photograph it if you have declared such a model was the real deal.
Techpowerup agrees that it was a fake on the day.
Well that makes more sense, the card he held up is not the model in the other photographs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pob255
From my experience in electronics, when they first get silicon they will get it soldered onto boards which will already be ready and waiting. At least one of those boards will refuse to work, so you aught to have something you can wave on a stage and claim quite validly is the real deal without holding up engineering schedules.
Charlie has been bang on with so many things, but this one just doesn't make sense to me. Even if silicon is behind, the PCB, cooler and plastics have no need to be off schedule.
That's pretty odd. The PCB looks like it's had a load of it cut off the end - there are the tail ends of a pair of stickers and it would also explain why there are a lone pair of solder points for a PCIe power connector.
I guess I'm the only one expecting to see pics of Fermi Board naked.
Damn my inability to read and concentr...... ooh look a biro!
that's board not broad
Did you think Fermi was the new nvidia demo girl?
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...r_Q4_2009.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Pob255
NVIDIA has already stated that it was just a mock up for the presentation, and that they'll have shipping cards this year.
I wonder if they would have admitted that if people hadnt drooled over the board porn and noticed!!!
Either way, it's all very exciting for scientists etc....although we dont need much to get us excited!!!