AMD's South Islands, NVIDIA Kepler jumped to 2012?

As expected, both AMD and NVIDIA should launch their new architecture products "Southern Islands" and "Kelper" by the end of this year, but so far their news has been pitifully low. Do you doubt if you want to wait until 2012 to see them?

A product manager of a large graphics card manufacturer stated: “Normally, we will learn about the new GPUs three to six months before release. (But) AMD and NVIDIA are very silent now. It may be that they are more secretive than usual. , but the greater possibility is that the next generation (graphics) is still very far away. Now both have competitive products."

Both the Southern Islands and Kepler will use TSMC's new 28nm technology. It is said that some of the former will be handed over to GlobalFoundries. However, the two foundries are not yet ready to mass-produce 28nm high-performance chips. Perhaps this is the key reason why AMD and NVIDIA's new generation of graphics cards have refused to show up.

AMD’s Southern Islands are said to use the improved VLIW4 architecture based on the Radeon HD 6900 series, and will increase the number of stream processors and increase the frequency with new technology. It is expected to use single core to achieve the performance level of today’s dual-core Radeon HD 6990. . On the other hand, NVIDIA's Kepler claims to provide 3-4 times more performance per watt than Fermi.