NVIDIA Congratulates Turing - But Might Delay new upcoming Turing graphics cards
So, over the weekend two things happened. First up, it was Alan Turing's birthday, the man behind cracking the Enigma code, the one mathematical name in the industry looking to be the codename to be used by NVIDIA for their GPUs. And guess what?
So with the man having its birthday, it's always fun for a company that if you would use the name on one of your products, at least to do something with that on his birth date. And yeah, that's exactly what NVIDIA did as they posted this tweet:
It's more of a hint really, Turing seems to be the real codename for NVIDIA's upcoming GPU series or at least one of them. It's tradition for NVIDIA to make use of a product codename based on a mathematician, Pascal, Fermi, Kepler etc.
Right, then there is the second bit of news, word out on the street is that NVIDIA will be further delaying the new graphics cards. The mining arena seems to have collapsed, there would be much stock left based on current inventory, and since NVIDIA really doesn't 'need to' release a new series of cards. They might sit it out a little while longer to clear up inventory mentions SemiAccurate. Also, earlier this month it was announced that Nvidia would hold a presentation on Hot Chips mentioning "the next generation of mainstream gpu's" in the conference agenda. As it now seems, this presentation has been canceled and replaced by one from Intel. That is another indication that introduction of Turing seems to have been postponed, although we are not sure.
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Could be thats why they named the next cards Turing. The release date is as much a cipher as the Enigma code.
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Subtle difference that slipped me before my morning coffee, adding that

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...which it seems they still haven't cracked yet... Ergo the delaying/postponing.

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I assume that few of you can not enjoy the 1080's settling in your cases.
If Nvidia was going to release a new architecture design based on the 12nm fab process how bigger the gain could be? Math is simple here.
Try to stay calm and enjoy one of the most durable architecture that Nvidia has ever made.
Personally this month I have started my third year with the 1080 FE and I am impressed what this card can do...try to do the same

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Actually Turing cracked the Enigma cipher, which was used by the german military during WW2