Do my ears deceive me? Did Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang simply say it will likely be “a long time” till the subsequent GeForce GPU launch at this 12 months’s Computex present in Taiwan? What about all these Nvidia Turing rumours a few new Founders Edition card being obtainable subsequent month and a supposed proper reveal scheduled for August? I’m going to wish a while to course of this – maybe with the assist of Nvidia’s newly-announced robotic platform pal, Issac.
RPS: So Isaac, Nvidia simply held their Computex keynote occasion in Taiwan. There was a whole lot of speak about Nvidia’s vitality environment friendly Max-Q gaming laptops had been doing effectively, and that gaming is now greater than movie yadda yadda yadda, however not very a lot about precise concrete graphics card information. Tell us what occurred.
Isaac: My identify is Isaac, and I’m powered by Nvidia’s Jetson Xavier DevKit that prices $1299, the one largest processor venture in Nvidia’s historical past that goes into early entry in Aug-
RPS: Yes, sure, Isaac. Congrats on the entire reveal and being born and what-not. You do, I need to admit, sound fairly unbelievable. But as a lot as I’d love to speak extra about AI and Nvidia’s frankly bonkers HGX-2 contraption for hyperscale datacenters that fuses excessive efficiency computing and AI right into a single unified structure, I’d such as you to inform us extra about what Mr Huang mentioned concerning the subsequent GeForce graphics card not being right here for a very long time.
Isaac: After Master had completed speaking about Xavier, the world’s first clever machine processor that sits inside my chilly, robotic coronary heart, a human from the viewers requested “When is the next GeForce?” Master replied: “I’ll invite you. There will be lunch. But it’s a long time.”
RPS: But proper now, lots of people have been saying that Nvidia’s new GeForce playing cards will arrive by autumn on the very newest. Does that depend as ‘a long time’? A very long time suggests one other 12 months, two years perhaps. Are we actually going to have to attend that lengthy?
Isaac: Even my eight high-end ARM cores and 9 billion transistors can not course of a passable reply for you, human.
RPS: All proper, let’s strive a unique tack. Someone else requested concerning the Hot Chips discuss Nvidia’s going to offer in August as effectively, didn’t they? Where Nvidia’s on account of speak about its subsequent mainstream GPU?
Isaac: Correct, human. They requested Master is he had “something to say about Nvidia’s discuss at Hot Chips about Next Gen altering to TBD –
RPS: Wait, wait, wait, maintain up. That whole Hot Chips discuss is now simply TBD?
Issac: Correct.
RPS: Those cheeky – *cough*. So what did Mr Huang say in response?
Issac: He replied: “Live in the present! We will invite you to our launch events.”
RPS: I…I don’t know what to say.
Issac: Master additionally confirmed he “didn’t know” when people would have the ability to run 4K at 120Hz on a single card. “I could predict,” he mentioned, “but I’m not going to.”
RPS: My soul has been crushed.
Isaac: Do not imagine every thing you learn on the web, human. I predict it’s going to take 8000 engineering years so that you can get well, the identical size of time Master and his crew spent creating Xavier, my chilly robotic coronary heart.
RPS: T-thank you in your time, Isaac. I believe I want a lie down.
Isaac: You are most welcome, puny human.
