Rumor: NVIDIA halts production of select Maxwell chips ahead of upcoming Pascal launch
According to rumors, NVIDIA is halting production of certain Maxwell chips in order to clear its existing inventory and make way for the upcoming Pascal launch, which could take place within the next couple of months.
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GTC 2016 came and went without a consumer Pascal graphics card announcement, much to the chagrin of gamers and enthusiasts who have been waiting for a follow up to 2014’s Maxwell architecture (there was instead the Tesla P100 and DGX-1 supercomputer). However, new rumors from the grapevine suggest that Pascal’s launch may be imminent, with reports claiming that NVIDIA is discontinuing production of the GM200 and GM204 GPUs in the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, 980, and 970.
If true, this would mean that NVIDIA is trying to clear the existing inventory of graphics cards to make way for the next generation products based on the new Pascal architecture. A Pascal launch event is also reportedly scheduled a few weeks prior to Computex 2016, so we could see Pascal as early as May.
And if NVIDIA follows through with the May announcement, some think replacements for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 980 will launch in early June, followed by a GeForce GTX 970 replacement in the middle of the month.
Source: The Tech Report
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