Nvidia Responds: Fermi is Real, just “ugly”

In response to the big news about the breakdown of NVidia’s Fermi presentation at GTC, Nvidia has issued a format response confirming what I suspected:  Fermi is real, and was running at GTC, but it’s still very much an “engineering prototype”:

Nvidia confirms Fermi that was running PhysX at Jensen’s GTC keynote was real but the one that we all took pictures of was a mock-up.

The real engineering sample card is full of dangling wires. Basically, it looks like an octopus of modules and wires and the top brass at Nvidia didn’t want to give that thing to Jensen. This was confirmed today by a top Nvidia VP president class chap, but the same person did confirm that the card is real and that it does exist.

via Fudzilla.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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