The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has made it clear that we can't expect a new-generation of Nvidia graphics cards in the near future. During a speech at the Computex show in Taiwan, he was asked about upcoming graphics cards and replied that we shouldn't expect to see anything new in that realm of Nvidia's business for a "long time."
What Nvidia has planned for its next-generation graphics cards has been rather up in the air for a while now. With two announced generations -- Turing and Volta -- and more than a two year gap since the last generation debuted, and rumors of a greater focus on AI and cryptocurrency mining, nobody is quite sure what Nvidia has planned.
The latest round of speculation suggested that we'd see a new GTX 1180 and 1170 show up in July or August, but Huang's latest statements make that far less certain. When pressed by journalists to clarify his statements, he said )(via ): "It will be a long time from now. I'll invite you, and there will be lunch."
The rest of his talk at Computex discussed elements already unveiled at the Nvidia GTC event a few weeks ago. That meant he talked a lot about mid-range laptops and how they had seen huge growth with Nvidia GTX GPUs, the company's developments on the AI front with self-driving cars, and the DGX-2 monster server platform.
That last point is almost a tease, since it packs 16 next-generation Tesla v100 GPUs in the same chassis.
Are any of you holding out for Nvidia's next-generation?
