Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan: Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s CEO has hinted that the next wave of GPUs from the company won’t be announced “for a long time”. “When’s the next GeForce?” said Huang while skirting a question from a fellow journalist at the NVIDIA press conference. “I’m going to invite you guys – don’t worry! Not only will you be invited, there’ll probably be lunch.”
Dodging questions about a next-gen GeForce, Huang finally said, “It’s a long time from now.” Now a long time is a matter of perspective, as many reports floating around suggest that Nvidia will reveal its next-generation graphics card architecture, thought to be called Turing, in August 2018.
Going by previous trends, Nvidia is overdue a GPU architecture reveal, as it normally debuts new hardware around springtime, as it did with the 10-series graphics cards. But it would appear that something has delayed that announcement, or perhaps Nvidia just doesn’t want a springtime reveal any longer.
Jensen Huang the CEO of NVIDIA, distributing sandwiches to journalists prior to the start of the NVIDIA press conference at COMPUTEX 2018.
Either way, the current Pascal architecture was a solid success for Nvidia, especially in how it brought near-desktop level GPU performance to mobile graphics cards. As such, Turing has some big boots to fill, but with memory technology and controllers improving, the next-wave of Nvidia GPUs could bring in some tech to really shake up a new wave of graphics cards, especially if it can into some slimmed-down ray tracing tech.