"NVIDIA is preparing a new branding strategy for notebook solutions expectations during 2009, distinguishing between solutions at 55 and 40 nanometers"
New details on what should be news to be presented by NVIDIA in the GPU for notebook systems.
NVIDIA will use the symbol to indicate N10x their GPUs to mobile devices, identifying this as solutions built with technology at 55 nanometers and future developments that are considerable of the production process to 40 nanometers.
During the first half of the NVIDIA mobile GPUs are all produced using 55 nanometer technology. The series will use N10E GPU family G92b and G94b, equivalent then to desktop solutions currently known by the names of GeForce 9800 and GeForce 9600 GT. N10P proposals will be placed in mid-segment of the market, using G96b architecture, while the proposed solutions will N10M mainstream, with models of GPUs G98b at 55 nanometers and 65 nanometers G98.
For the second half of NVIDIA will adopt the technology at 40 nanometers developed by Taiwanese production partner TSMC. Which proposal will top the range GPUs N10E, based architectures GT212 and GT215. In the band mainstream N10P take GT216 architecture and in the entry level models will be based on N10M chip GT218. All these solutions will also be made available, presumably starting from the middle of the year, in versions for desktop systems.
Note how the families of GPUs remain the same initials to vary the type of production process adopted from one to 55 nanometers to more sophisticated than 40 nanometers. It is not yet clear how NVIDIA will better identify the different versions of the GPU, but presumably this will happen with a numerical suffix like what happened with the series GPU GeForce GTX 200 in the desktop segment.
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