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GPU manufacturing supergiant NVIDIA held an event yesterday, and while much of the Internet’s money was upon the grand revelation of a tablet boasting NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset, they instead mostly spelled out what we could expect from NVIDIA over the years to come.
The biggest takeaway is that while NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset is a huge success, NVIDIA has no intention of resting on its laurels: they are already hard at work on their next GPU, which is internally known as Kepler and which will land in the second half of 2011.
There’s not a lot of details about what Kepler will be, but NVIDIA plans to go into production later this year, as the design is progressing rapidly. NVIDIA says they have hundreds of engineers working on Kepler, which will be based on a 28 nanometer process and deliver an estimated performance boost that will prove three to four times better than NVIDIA’s Fermi cards on a watt-for-watt basis.
But NVIDIA isn’t going to get complacent after Kepler either. NVIDIA also announced that the GPU after Kepler will be called Maxwell and it will provide a sixteen-times increase in parallel graphics-based computing when it debuts in 2013.
Ultimately, NVIDIA says to expect a new Tegra from them every year until they break Moore’s Law or blow up the world, whatever comes first
