Nvidia’s next DirectX11 graphics base Fermi, which we discussed a couple of months back, was being delayed until January. Now it seems we’ll have to wait longer.

The Fermi GPU has hit a couple more problems and the release has been said(Digitimes Report) to have been put back till March 2010 after it was scheduled for November 2009 and then January 2010. Again its the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC’s) name that crops up as one of the reasons. Although 40nm process yields have improved, capacity is still not hitting targets to supply the GPU manufacturers fully which have had an effect on the launch schedules.A 40nm GDDR5 memory-based Fermi-GF100 GPU is due to be the first release.

"It is completely clear that GPUs are now general purpose parallel computing processors with amazing graphics, and not just graphics chips anymore. The Fermi architecture, the integrated tools, libraries and engines are the direct results of the insights we have gained from working with thousands of CUDA developers around the world. We will look back in the coming years and see that Fermi started the new GPU industry."

These are the words of Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia on Fermi.