According to foreign media sources, Kepler Kepler, the heir to the NVIDIA Fermi Fermi architecture, will not be released until the first quarter of 2012.

Like AMD's Southern Islands "Southern Islands", NVIDIA's Kepler will also transfer the first manufacturing process from 40nm to 28nm, but TSMC's new process is still not mature enough to produce high-end GPUs like previous generations. The yield rate of chips cannot reach the ideal level, and in particular, NVIDIA Kepler is still huge in size and will release its hopes this year.

AMD still insists on the launch of the Southern Islands this year, as early as the third quarter and late as the fourth quarter, but sources said that AMD is also plagued by the issue of TSMC's 40nm process yield, so even if it insists on preemptive release, it will not be possible. Get to large-scale listings soon.

Kepler has successfully succeeded in tapeout, and many models of development codes for the Southern Islands have also appeared in the driver. The GPU's twins are gearing up to see what TSMC is all about.