Nvidia D8E (9800/8900) pushed till 2008? [FUD WARNING]

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I believe some of them were referring to the shrink.
Nvidia almost always shrinks their mid-low end cards first and then follows with a highend card on the same PP.

Exactly... nVidia has typically done a GTX/GTS followed by mainstream and low-end followed by a die-shrink refresh of the mainstream along with an ultra variation (and in the case of the G70 a 7950GX2 as well) at the top to soak all the margin they can from the current gen before launching a next gen part.

Remember there was 2+ years between the 7800GTX launch and the 8800GTX launch... again, because ATI couldn't catch up with the 7800GTX for a long time.

We've now got news of a G80 version of the 7950GX2 product due in Q1 so I don't see a new next gen part coming until Q2 or later based on that news.