Charlie Demerjian, from The Inquirer, is reporting that the GT300 from Nvidia is delayed until 2010. That does seem likely, given the specs circulating around the web.
As Charlie mentions, the GT21x cards are MIA, which is an indication that Nvidia could be in trouble with the next generation chip.
That's not the most alarming news piece, given what AMD has done to NV in the $100-$150 range with the HD 4770. They really need to come up with something good and scrapping some of those parts makes sense. The original specs for the new midrange GT200 chip called for 160 shaders on 40nm but we didn't heard anything regarding that card and it wasn't surely targeted at the $100 price point, given the expected die-size.
Nvidia is planning a cheaper, single board GeForce GTX 295 and there's no good reason to redisign a high-end, low volume, dual-GPU part unless you really need it to stick for longer - if the GT300 would debut in October, it wouldn't make much sense to spend resources on it.
If you consider that Nvidia might have to delay the card for god knows how long into 2010 while AMD is expected to debut the RV870 chip over the summer, then the "GTX 295+" starts to make more sense.
There's also the die-size question. With rumored specs of the GT300 pointing at 512 shader cores, that would mean a huge core that would only be possible on the troublesome 40nm process from TSMC. (The actual architecture should change but that's a story for a whole other post)
Computex 2009 starts in the 2nd of June and more news should follow about the next gen offers for this year, will the GT300 be among them?
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