GeForce G310 Fermi - Nvidia news! 2010

The manufacturing of the GT300 chipsets from nVIDIA, the first core made with the 40nm process and compatible with DirectX 11 is good, and the rumors about problems in the manufacturing are wrong.

“Our (Nvidia’s) 40nm yields are fine. The rumors you are hearing are baseless”, said a senior manager from nVIDIA for the site Fudzilla. The rumors of problems in the manufacturing of the GT300 chip started to be heard in the past few weeks. nVIDIA’s statement refer to the the 40nm process in general, but since the rumors talked about the GT300, it’s easy to assume nVIDIA refers also to this product.

The GT300 is expected to launch this trimester, at the end of November or beginning of December.

nVIDIA denied the rumors of a possible conflict with Apple last Friday. According to insiders, the partnership between nVIDIA and Apple is still going and apparently the head of nVIDIA’s graphic division Jen-Hsun Huang is calm about the current situation. In fact, Apple would still be ordering nVIDIA chips as usual.

Rumors had previously claimed that the two companies had started to break their partnership after some malfunctioning found on some GeForce 8600M chips, that probably also happened on the 9600M GT chips. Rumors also claim that the problems between nVIDIA and Apple have their origins on the conflict between nVIDIA and Intel over the manufacturing of chipset featuring integrated memory controllers.

Nvidia has increased the orders for the 40nm graphic chips from their partner company, Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) from Taiwan. The news was leaked through internal sources from Graphic Cards manufacturers and accoding to them, Nvidia is expecting an manufacturing increase of 30% by the end of this year.

Nvidia has recently finished projecting the new GPU generation GT300 with 40nm chips manufactured by TSMC. Always according to Taiwan sources, the company would also have shown interest towards the 28nm technology that is being developed by TSMC, whose production should start at the first trimester of 2010.