Nvidia has announced in their GPU Technology Conference 2010 that the company has moved forward from Fermi, and is fondling with its successor codenamed Kepler. They expect production to go in end of this year and ship in 2011. That’s kind of harsh and a shocker. No delays this time? Kepler is based on a 28nm process, and will deliver an estimated 3 to 4 times the performance per watt compared to Fermi, besides running cooler than the hot headed Fermi.

But Nvidia does not only talk about Kepler. There’s another mate around, called Maxwell. Maxwell will come after Kepler, in 2013, supposedly bringing a sixteen-fold increase in parallel graphics-based computing just two years after that, including advanced features like the ability to autonomously process some content independent of a CPU.

SOURCE via Engadget